The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of
Robin & Orchid written by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim.
Robin & Orchid was released as part of the 2013 IF Competition, in which it took second place.
You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting
IFDB.

WARNING!Below you will find a transcript of
people playing this game, and it goes without saying that
the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never
played this game, and think you might like to at some
point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead,
you might want to return to the interactive fiction
page.

Jacqueline says, "So, no authors today, though they are here in spirit and are looking forward to our transcript."

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load robinandorchid"

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a
Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing,
Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get
Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why
Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it
Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose,
Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the lock-in,
Floyd | so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I just wanted
Floyd | to put you on an even footing. And for your second question, I might
Floyd | have written some things in there that I wouldn't have said to Orchid's
Floyd | face."
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've
Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to say.
Floyd | Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job. That's
Floyd | one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if you run
Floyd | off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back. That's two.
Floyd | And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't believe in ghosts
Floyd | doesn't mean you're not gonna see one.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things."

maga says, "okay, this is at the top of my replay list but I should probably do that alone, at my leisure"

Floyd | >You are Robin Monaghan, high school junior, associate reporter for the
Floyd | West High Warbler. You are not overly fond of churches, and you have
Floyd | never claimed to believe in ghosts, but here you are.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, and," Orchid adds, "don't turn the lights on while you're looking
Floyd | around unless you have to. Some ghosts won't appear unless it's dark,
Floyd | and we've only got tonight to gather all our evidence."
Floyd |

Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "FYI, we play a bit slower than you might on your own."

Doug asks, "is "lock-in" a thing that churches usually have?"

Draconis says (to Jacqueline), "Oh, sorrt."

Draconis says, "*sorry"

Jacqueline says (to Doug), "I think they sometimes do, yeah."

Doug asks, "what is it?"

inky says, "I assumed it was lock-on, like luke and the death star"

DavidW says (to Doug), "Not that I know of."

Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "No worries, just letting you know. It's like we're hiking through this adventure, and want to keep the group together and not leave anyone behind."

inky says, "at the climax Orchid has to remove her targeting computer"

Doug says, "take a photo of orchid"

Doug says (to Floyd), "take a photo of orchid"

Floyd | >(with the Polaroid camera)
Floyd | You snap a picture of Orchid. The camera whirrs and vibrates and
Floyd | eventually spits out a print of the photo.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon stomps into the nursery. "There are supposed to be some blankets
Floyd | somewhere in this nursery," she says. "Robin, can you find them and
Floyd | grab them for me?" She looks thoughtfully at the child-sized cots
Floyd | scattered around the room.
Floyd |

Jacqueline says, "I was going to say... lock-ins are usually for teens, and then the X ME solidified that."

inky says (to Floyd), "x sharon"

Floyd | >Sharon is the student teacher assisting the staff advisor for the West
Floyd | High Warbler. In the past the staff has always managed quite well
Floyd | without a student teacher, but she does come in handy as a chaperone
Floyd | for situations like this.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Okay, girls," she says. "Here's how this is going to work."
Floyd |

Floyd | >Orchid, like most girls your age, is taller than you. Her cheeks are
Floyd | covered in freckles that you had never seen before tonight; she must
Floyd | put makeup on over them for school. You have the uneasy feeling that
Floyd | there are more freckles on her left cheek than her right.
Floyd |
Floyd | She notices you examining her, and you look away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon continues, "This is your story and your investigation, so don't
Floyd | expect me to be running around the church with you all night." She
Floyd | pushes one of the cots up against the wall.
Floyd |

DavidW says, "I hope I don't have to map. I wanna eat snacks with one hand and operate the laptop with the other."

inky says, "unless Sharon is using girls in the sassy gay man sense"

Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Yeah"

djfletch says, "I'm suspicious of her sinister-biased freckles"

djfletch says, "seems like it would probably be a sign of evil"

Jacqueline says, "I'd like to read the notebook, but possibly we need to do it surreptitiously."

DavidW says, "The Case of the Missing Freckles"

Draconis asks, "Does Floyd have undo?"

Doug says, "read notebook surreptitiously"

Doug says (to Floyd), "read notebook surreptitiously"

Floyd | >I only understood you as far as wanting to read Casey's notes.
Floyd |

Draconis says (to Floyd), "read notebook"

Floyd | >The notebook is thick, and as you flick through the pages, it looks
Floyd | like it's nearly full. Surely Casey didn't make notes about everything
Floyd | in the church? How long did he spend on this anyway?
Floyd |
Floyd | There's way too much information here to sit down and read it all at
Floyd | once, but you can look up anything you want to know about.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon pulls another of the cots toward her and lines it up with the
Floyd | first one. "I don't care if you stay up all night, tomorrow isn't a
Floyd | school day so it's not my problem if you're exhausted. Personally, I
Floyd | want my eight hours, though."
Floyd |

inky says, "oh, I was assuming this was going to be lesbian romance"

Doug says, "dammit, where's the typo button"

inky says, "so at some point you'd have to "count her freckles""

DavidW says (to Draconis), "Floyd is just a go-between, but the terp he's using has undo, yes."

Doug says, "69,105 freckles. is my guess."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "count freckles"

Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

DavidW says, "ha"

Jacqueline | You can't read it all in one go, but you can look up anything you want because Casey included a helpful, alphabetized index. How long did he spend on this anyway?

Doug says (to Floyd), "lookup ghosts"

Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up ghosts"

Floyd | >(in Casey's notes)
Floyd | [This action may cause some slight lag in the browser version of this
Floyd | game. We sincerely regret any inconvenience.]
Floyd |
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | don't know how much you already know about the ghost in the church so
Floyd | I'll give you the whole story. Jennie Bancroft is the name of the ghost
Floyd | that haunts Grace United Methodist. She used to be alive, but then she
Floyd | died, in or around the church, sometime in the distant past. I keep
Floyd | meaning to look up when she died but I haven't had time.
Floyd |
Floyd | "When people see her, she looks like a teenage girl in pigtails. I
Floyd | don't think she shows up covered in blood or anything like that; she's
Floyd | just a sad girl. Obviously a lot of the time she's invisible though.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Some of the evidence that we have for her existence includes:
Floyd |
Floyd | - sounds of footsteps and a girl crying when nobody else is in the
Floyd | church
Floyd | - cold spots in rooms, rooms that suddenly become cold for no reason
Floyd | - stuff goes missing, then shows up again
Floyd | - you see someone at the end of the hallway but when you get to the end
Floyd | of the hallway there's nobody there
Floyd | - basically everybody has seen her out of the corner of their eye at
Floyd | some point
Floyd |
Floyd | "Debate continues on the subject of how Jennie died. Popular theories
Floyd | state that she jumped off of the church steeple, or she drank poison,
Floyd | or used a space heater to carbon monoxide herself. According to one
Floyd | explanation she died accidentally, because she was using a Ouija board,
Floyd | but that theory is idiotic. Jennie Bancroft definitely committed
Floyd | suicide, and it was definitely because of a boy she was in love with."
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon continues, "So I'm going to stay here and sleep, and you two are
Floyd | going to get on with your investigating, and not wake me up unless
Floyd | there's a life-threatening emergency or something."
Floyd |

Jacqueline says, "Also, a slight lag in the Floyd version of this game. (Though only just.)"

inky says, "ha ha"

inky says, "she's a ghost, and she used to be alive but then died? you don't say!"

Jacqueline says, "hee"

Draconis says, "And in the past, too? THE PLOT THICKENS!"

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up casey"

Floyd | >(in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "Dear
Floyd | Robin. I am Casey, your friend. I am writing to you from the past. Back
Floyd | here in the past it is very dark, but we have hope that you, in the
Floyd | future, will be able to rekindle the flame of enlightenment and lead us
Floyd | to wisdom. Have you seen a ghost yet? If you haven't seen a ghost, keep
Floyd | looking around until you do. Thanks. Sincerely, Casey."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Orchid, pass me that cot in the corner, will you?" Sharon asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid pulls a face but goes to get it.
Floyd |

Marvin has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x cot"

Floyd | >Each cot is composed of scratchy fabric stretched over an aluminum
Floyd | frame, and there is no way any of them could be very comfortable.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just don't complain to me when you've spent the whole night
Floyd | ghost-hunting and have nothing to show for it. Thanks, Orchid." Sharon
Floyd | pushes the last cot into place alongside the other two and frowns at
Floyd | the result.
Floyd |

Doug says (to Floyd), "pull face"

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

Jacqueline asks, "Sharon's the student teacher?"

DavidW says, "yes"

Draconis asks, "Do you think we can look up Orchid while she's right here?"

Floyd | >(in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Here's an anecdote about Orchid. This happened just recently. I didn't
Floyd | tell you, because I wanted to save it for here. Okay:
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm at school after hours because of rehearsals. But we're still in
Floyd | the fairly lazy stage of the production, so there's lots of time to
Floyd | just goof off around the school. So while the underclassmen are sitting
Floyd | around in the hall running lines, I head up to the drama office,
Floyd | because there are donuts there.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But Orchid and Aiden Kingsley are already up in the office, and as
Floyd | soon as I poke my head in Orchid looks up and says 'Actors only,
Floyd | please!' and I'm like 'Actually, I am an actor,' and she says, 'Well,
Floyd | you know what I mean.'
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, Orchid! I do not have the slightest idea what you mean. I would
Floyd | have just grabbed a donut and left, but you're not allowed to take the
Floyd | donuts out of the drama office, so I just left.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wouldn't say I hate Orchid. Hate is a very strong word. I completely
Floyd | hate Aiden, though."
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon unrolls a thin mattress on top of the cots. "I expect the West
Floyd | High Warbler can find some other story to run if this one doesn't work
Floyd | out. It'll be a nuisance, though."
Floyd |

Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up Aiden"

Floyd | >(in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | guess you've probably seen Aiden in plays, but I've actually worked
Floyd | with him, so I know what I'm talking about. He is unbearable. You
Floyd | should be able to guess from the mustache.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aiden goes to parties, gets girls drunk, makes out with them, and then
Floyd | convinces them that his number is '123-4567'. And then he tells this
Floyd | story to everyone at rehearsal and expects us to laugh.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Speaking of which. This is the worst thing Aiden does: He laughs at
Floyd | every single one of his own jokessometimes just at sentences he says
Floyd | that can't even be considered jokesand it's always the same
Floyd | single-syllable laugh, always the same pitch, pronounced exactly the
Floyd | same way. It's not really a laugh, it's more of a signal that you're
Floyd | supposed to think he's funny.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aiden doesn't even go to my church, but he's the worst, and I think
Floyd | you should know that."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Have you found the blankets yet?" Sharon asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | You shake your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "They must be in one of these cupboards. Somewhere." She looks up at
Floyd | them and sighs. Sharon is barely taller than you, and she obviously
Floyd | doesn't want to try to search the cupboards herself. "Someone from the
Floyd | church would know."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't look at me," Orchid says.
Floyd |

inky says, "I have no idea what either of these things mean"

DavidW says, "I suppose we should find those blankets."

DavidW says (to Floyd), "goals"

Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

Doug says (to Floyd), "search cupboards"

Floyd | >There are way too many cupboards, and you can't even see what's on the
Floyd | top shelves from here, much less reach them. Surely there's a better
Floyd | way to find out where the blankets are kept than just hunting through
Floyd | everything.
Floyd |

inky asks, "did Casey interrupt an Orchid/Aiden makeout session?"

Doug says (to Floyd), "hunt through everything"

Floyd | >That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |

inky asks, "and if so, does that mean that Casey, Orchid, and Aiden are going to be normal kid names these days?"

Doug says, "Aiden definitely is"

inky says (to Floyd), "look up sharon in book"

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

DavidW says, "yeah, Aiden is everywhere."

inky says (to Floyd), "look up sharon in notebook"

Floyd | >You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "Why
Floyd | do people like Sharon want to become teachers? (By 'people like Sharon'
Floyd | I mean 'people who obviously hate everything about teaching, even and
Floyd | especially students'.) If you're already completely jaded and cynical
Floyd | after your first semester of student teaching, isn't that a sign that
Floyd | you should give up on K-12 education and possibly on life in general?"
Floyd |

inky says (to DavidW), "especially to hear Casey tell it!"

Doug says, "also Jaden and Braden"

DavidW says, "Twenty years from now, I'll be 'Daven'."

djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up blankets"

Floyd | >(in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "What
Floyd | I heard is that you guys are going to sleep in the nursery, which
Floyd | doesn't make sense because there are couches in the youth rooms, but I
Floyd | guess those couches are pretty grody actually. I see your point. They
Floyd | keep some blankets up in the cupboards, but somebody as short as you is
Floyd | probably going to have to climb up on top of the recliner to reach
Floyd | them. No offense, Robin. I'm just saying. You're really short."
Floyd |

inky says, "ha ha"

inky says, "uhh"

% Connection to ifmud-perry closed by foreign host.

*** MUD CRASH ***

Jacqueline arrives, full of funk, but no fun.

DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys.

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load robinandorchid"

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a
Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing,
Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get
Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why
Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it
Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose,
Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the lock-in,
Floyd | so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I just wanted
Floyd | to put you on an even footing. And for your second question, I might
Floyd | have written some things in there that I wouldn't have said to Orchid's
Floyd | face."
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've
Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to say.
Floyd | Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job. That's
Floyd | one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if you run
Floyd | off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back. That's two.
Floyd | And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't believe in ghosts
Floyd | doesn't mean you're not gonna see one.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things."

Doug arrives, full of fun, but no funk.

Doug asks, "was that a g-g-g-ghost?"

Jacqueline says, "haha"

Jacqueline says, "Possibly."

Jacqueline says, "Let's wait a few for Draconis."

DavidW says, "Jinkies. Me and Scoob will search the kitchen."

Jacqueline says, "Oh, you meant on CFR"

Jacqueline says, "er, CF"

Jacqueline says, "I always thought that was going to be a euphemism for 'smoke a doobie' but then they never showed that in the cartoon."

Jacqueline says, "We'll give Draconis until half past the hour"

DavidW says, "nah, they'd never smoke or drink in the cartoons."

Jacqueline asks (of inky), "According to another channel, that crash was all your fault... so, should we be saving frequently? Are you tinkering with stuff behind the curtain, great wizard?"

inky says, "well, I'm going to hold off with any more tinkering until CF is done"

Jacqueline says, "See, they go on about this being a ghost story... but that's the scary bit."

Draconis arrives, ready to play with the toys.

Jacqueline says, "And there is Draconis."

Draconis says, "Reconnected."

Jacqueline says, "Okay, so, I don't know that we have to look those things up again, but ... yeah. We can restart now."

Draconis asks, "Any ghost sightings?"

Doug says (to Floyd), "l"

Floyd |
Floyd | Robin & Orchid
Floyd | An exercise in photojournalism by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 131027 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Nursery
Floyd | Sharon, in her wisdom, decided that everybody should sleep in this
Floyd | cramped corner of the church basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up
Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out
Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits underneath
Floyd | them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the basement
Floyd | stairway and south are dark as well.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when you
Floyd | finish your investigation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, lecturing you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'd better hold onto this," she says, handing you the camera,
Floyd | "you're the official photographer. Just don't forget, if you see
Floyd | something that might be evidence of a ghost, make sure you take a photo
Floyd | of it."
Floyd |
Floyd | You slip the camera strap around your neck.
Floyd |

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x camera"

Floyd | >Something went wrong with the West High Warbler's official camera, so
Floyd | Casey scrounged up this old Polaroid instead. He was very keen on you
Floyd | using a Polaroid camera for this story, for some reasonhe gave you
Floyd | enough photo paper to document a whole congregation of ghosts.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid notices your notebook. "What's all that?" she asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, Casey gave it to me. It's just some notes about things in the
Floyd | church."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Is there anything about me in there?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't think so," you lie, and Orchid loses interest.
Floyd |

Doug says, "oh oops, I guess we restarted"

DavidW says, "I don't think there was even any innocent smoochies or even hand-holding in the Scooby-Doo cartoons."

DavidW says (to Doug), "Had to. We hadn't saved at all yet."

Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "No ghosts, but we were scared to learn that Aiden is the #1 baby name, that Jayden is #3, and Kayden is #7."

Doug says, "I thought maybe the server that Floyd connects to was unaffected"

Doug says, "but maybe Floyd can't re-connect"

Draconis asks, "Wait, did the server go down?"

Jacqueline says, "No, Floyd's here."

Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "Yeah, the mud crashed."

Jacqueline says, "inky was tinkering with some code and we went down, but he's going to hold off until after CF."

Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait."

Jacqueline says, "I should have loaded this with sleepmask."

Doug says, "I meant, maybe Floyd can't reconnect to the game without restarting it. But probably I don't understand how Floyd works so I'll stop speculating."

Jacqueline says, "One sec."

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit"

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit"

Jacqueline says, "Oh, and now I see what you mean."

Doug asks, "I wondered about that-- what does sleepmask do?"

Jacqueline says, "Sleepmask gives us a status line and delineates bold/italic fonts and stuff."

Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.

Jacqueline says (to inky), "IIIINNNNKKKKKYYYYYY"

Doug says, "ahh. I thought maybe it was only needed for certain formats or something"

DavidW) Dougs asks, "but how?"

inky presses the yellow enter button.

Jacqueline says (to inky), "I think he's gone, Scoob."

Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"

DavidW says, "yoinks"

Jacqueline says, "Well, like, he's *here* but..."

inky says, "not sure entirely what happened there, but I force-quit the game"

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a
Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing,
Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get
Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why
Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it
Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose,
Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the
Floyd | lock-in, so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I
Floyd | just wanted to put you on an even footing. And for your second
Floyd | question, I might have written some things in there that I wouldn't
Floyd | have said to Orchid's face."
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've
Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to
Floyd | say. Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job.
Floyd | That's one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if
Floyd | you run off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back.
Floyd | That's two. And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't
Floyd | believe in ghosts doesn't mean you're not gonna see one.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things."

Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things."
Floyd | Robin & OrchidFloyd | An exercise in photojournalism by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 131027 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | NurseryFloyd | Sharon, in her wisdom, decided that everybody should sleep in this
Floyd | cramped corner of the church basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up
Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out
Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits
Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the
Floyd | basement stairway and south are dark as well.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when
Floyd | you finish your investigation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, lecturing you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'd better hold onto this," she says, handing you the camera,
Floyd | "you're the official photographer. Just don't forget, if you see
Floyd | something that might be evidence of a ghost, make sure you take a
Floyd | photo of it."
Floyd |
Floyd | You slip the camera strap around your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CUPBOARDSFloyd |
Floyd | The nursery cupboards are numerous and mounted high up on the walls,
Floyd | presumably so the kids can't get into them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon stomps into the nursery. "There are supposed to be some
Floyd | blankets somewhere in this nursery," she says. "Robin, can you find
Floyd | them and grab them for me?" She looks thoughtfully at the child-sized
Floyd | cots scattered around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > OPEN CUPBOARDSFloyd |
Floyd | It takes some hunting to find them, but there are the blankets, up on
Floyd | the top shelf.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon continues, "This is your story and your investigation, so don't
Floyd | expect me to be running around the church with you all night." She
Floyd | pushes one of the cots up against the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "There is a status line, but it only says the room. No score or time or anything dynamic."

Doug says (to Floyd), "x toys"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > X TOYSFloyd |
Floyd | Toy cars, a lot of wooden blocks, a tea set, that kind of thing. It
Floyd | looks like someone tried to take a bite out of one of the blocks.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just don't complain to me when you've spent the whole night
Floyd | ghost-hunting and have nothing to show for it. Thanks, Orchid." Sharon
Floyd | pushes the last cot into place alongside the other two and frowns at
Floyd | the result.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "orchid, i"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > ORCHID, I
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon talks over you, drowning you out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon unrolls a thin mattress on top of the cots. "I expect the West
Floyd | High Warbler can find some other story to run if this one
Floyd | doesn't work out. It'll be a nuisance, though."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF FACEFloyd |
Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera)
Floyd | The click of the shutter sounds loud in the silence and seems to
Floyd | startle the creature outside the window. It turns and vanishes out of
Floyd | the light, its tail flicking past the glass. Orchid gives a
Floyd | high-pitched giggle.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Scared of a cat!" Sharon says. "You better not freak out and wake me
Floyd | up every time you mistake a shadow for a ghost tonight."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTOFloyd |
Floyd | It's the photo you took of the cat looking in through the window. How
Floyd | did you ever think it was a person? It's much too small and pale to be
Floyd | anything human. Although outside the window, obscured by the glass, it
Floyd | did look pretty ghostly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid peeks over your shoulder at the photo you took. "Hey, that's
Floyd | good!" she says. "I guess you can see how it's a cat now, but it
Floyd | looked really spooky, didn't it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Good thinking."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x photograph"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTOGRAPHFloyd |
Floyd | It's the photo you took of the cat looking in through the window. How
Floyd | did you ever think it was a person? It's much too small and pale to be
Floyd | anything human. Although outside the window, obscured by the glass, it
Floyd | did look pretty ghostly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon yawns. "Right, I'm going to bed now. Keep out of trouble, don't
Floyd | break anything, and don't wake me up unless it's really,Floyd | really serious, got it?" Without waiting for an answer, she lies
Floyd | down on the row of cots, facing away from you, and pulls the blankets
Floyd | over herself.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid says, "We'd better get started. How about this: you check out
Floyd | the basement, and I'll go upstairs and look around there, and then
Floyd | we'll meet up and compare notes. Don't forget to take a photo if you
Floyd | find any evidence of a ghost!" She slips out of the room. A moment
Floyd | later, you hear her footsteps echoing in the stairwell as she heads
Floyd | back up to the main floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline asks, "Also, I know we hate this student teacher, but should we tell her about the more comfortable (but possibly grody) couches?"

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the recliner)
Floyd | You switch the lights on in the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west, and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | A trolley with an ancient TV and a Super Nintendo on it is standing in
Floyd | front of one of the couches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP BUBSYFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | [This action may cause some slight lag in the browser version of this
Floyd | game. We sincerely regret any inconvenience.]
Floyd |
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | don't even know what Bubsy is about. A squirrel? It doesn't even have
Floyd | a proper two-player mode. You have to wait and watch the other guy
Floyd | play. It's bad for the group. I miss Tetris Attack."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "If we need to move something heavy or bulky."

Jacqueline says, "I have never have seen a 'voice of reason' in IF credits."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "push trolley west"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY WESTFloyd |
Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room and switch the lights on in
Floyd | the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the small table are a small white cross and a bird cage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "I'm glad Casey thought ahead to write about Bubsy."

Draconis asks, "A bird cage?"

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cage"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CAGEFloyd |
Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this
Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so
Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird
Floyd | cage?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up cage"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP CAGEFloyd |
Floyd | (the bird cage)
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Can't really tell you what the Sunday School bird cage is for; it
Floyd | showed up after I graduated. I think it might have something to do
Floyd | with like, Old Testament animal sacrifices? Back when you had to give
Floyd | the priest two of your doves instead of just praying for forgiveness?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "eep"

Doug says (to Floyd), "take photo of cage"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF CAGEFloyd |
Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera)
Floyd | You snap a picture of the bird cage. The camera whirrs and vibrates
Floyd | and eventually spits out a print of the photo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "Wow, Casey thought of everything."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x photo"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTOFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the photo of the cat looking through the window or
Floyd | the photo of the bird cage?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF MEFloyd |
Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera)
Floyd | You snap a picture of yourself. The camera whirrs and vibrates and
Floyd | eventually spits out a print of the photo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo of me"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTO OF MEFloyd |
Floyd | It turns out it's not that easy taking a photo of yourself with a
Floyd | Polaroid camera. The picture came out slightly blurry; you're not sure
Floyd | if it's because you weren't holding the camera still, or because it
Floyd | was too close to your face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline asks, "I guess we may just have to do this the old fashioned way. I would prefer not to be the mapper, though. Anyone else up for it?"

Doug says (to Floyd), "x poster"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X POSTERFloyd |
Floyd | The Ten Commandments are retold here by little cartoon children, in
Floyd | language appropriate to the target demographic: "Thou shalt not covet
Floyd | thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife,"
Floyd | etc., becomes "Don't be jealous of what other people have."
Floyd |
Floyd | As rusty as you are in this area, you can't remember which commandment
Floyd | is the one about adultery. It must be the seventh one, which is
Floyd | translated here as "Be faithful and loyal."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Take lots of pictures, get Sharon off our back, and keep an open mind. So, yeah, look for the ghost."

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd | You turn the lights off in the Sunday School room.
Floyd |
Floyd | You flick the hallway light switch on, but nothing happens. In the
Floyd | end, you turn the Sunday School room lights back on so you can see
Floyd | what you're doing.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it
Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides
Floyd | some light at this end. A huge figure looms out of the shadows—no,
Floyd | wait, it's just a plywood image of a lighthouse. Behind the lighthouse
Floyd | and partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little
Floyd | children.
Floyd |
Floyd | A movement catches your eye. Some tiny lights seem to be floating at
Floyd | the far end of the hall, flickering occasionally.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF LIGHTSFloyd |
Floyd | (the flickering lights with the Polaroid camera)
Floyd | You snap a picture of the flickering lights. The camera whirrs and
Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > X LIGHTHOUSEFloyd |
Floyd | The piece of plywood is about eight feet tall and an inch thick. A
Floyd | minimum of detail has been painted on to convey that this tapered
Floyd | rectangle is supposed to be a lighthouse. There are no supports; it's
Floyd | just propped up against the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > MOVE LIGHTHOUSEFloyd |
Floyd | You get the feeling that if you tried to move this thing anywhere, it
Floyd | would fall on top of you and snap in half.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "l"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it
Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides
Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand,
Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and
Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little
Floyd | children.
Floyd |
Floyd | A movement catches your eye. Some tiny lights seem to be floating at
Floyd | the far end of the hall, flickering occasionally.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lighthouse"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUSH LIGHTHOUSEFloyd |
Floyd | You get the feeling that if you tried to move this thing anywhere, it
Floyd | would fall on top of you and snap in half.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "slide lighthouse"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SLIDE LIGHTHOUSEFloyd |
Floyd | You get the feeling that if you tried to move this thing anywhere, it
Floyd | would fall on top of you and snap in half.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "huh. It knew 'slide'."

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The tiny lights to the north continue to drift aimlessly. Thanks to
Floyd | the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you can make
Floyd | out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't tell what
Floyd | it's supposed to represent in the gloom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTOFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the photo of the cat looking through the window,
Floyd | the photo of the bird cage, the photo of you taking a photo of
Floyd | yourself, the photo of the flickering lights, or the photo of
Floyd | darkness?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The flickering lights are only a little way to the north now.
Floyd | Otherwise, it's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the
Floyd | light at the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and
Floyd | west must be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable
Floyd | from the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | Your flailing about in the dark eventually discovers a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The flickering lights are only a little way to the north now.
Floyd | Otherwise, it's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the
Floyd | light at the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and
Floyd | west must be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable
Floyd | from the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Darkness
Floyd | >Floyd | > YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE BROW-BEATEN BY A PEW.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd | Your flailing about in the dark eventually discovers a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The flickering lights are only a little way to the north now.
Floyd | Otherwise, it's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the
Floyd | light at the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and
Floyd | west must be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable
Floyd | from the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Darkness
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd | As you approach the lights, they flicker one more time and vanish,
Floyd | leaving you in complete darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | DarknessFloyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing except for the dim light
Floyd | trickling in from the south end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Darkness
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd | It's too dark to see where you're going. A dim light from the south
Floyd | end of the hallway shows you the way back, but if you wander around at
Floyd | random you're probably just going to walk into walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "We need one of those tiny flashlights with a red filter to protect our night vision."

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at
Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must
Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the
Floyd | walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "can we get to some light and see what it is please?"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you
Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't
Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ectoplasm drips off your fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it
Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides
Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand,
Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and
Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little
Floyd | children.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat is sitting in the middle of the room, staring at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to more hallway and east to the Sunday
Floyd | School room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat is sitting in the middle of the room, staring at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x cat"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CATFloyd |
Floyd | The cat is almost completely white, except for a small black spot on
Floyd | the end of its tail. When it sees you looking at it, it narrows its
Floyd | pale blue eyes at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check
Floyd | whether you're following.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP LADIES' RESTROOM
Floyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Well, Robin. I actually explored the ladies' restroom briefly, during
Floyd | a game of Sardines. But then, because of events that transpired, the
Floyd | ladies' restroom was declared to be off-limits. And shortly after
Floyd | that, because of fairness, the men's restroom was declared to be
Floyd | off-limits as well. For Sardines purposes at least."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "hahaha"

DavidW says, "game of Sardines? I don't know that one."

Doug says, "I guess we have no compunction about getting ectoplasm on the notes"

Jacqueline says, "Sardines is a game I do now know."

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up sardines"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP SARDINESFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Sardines is this awesome game we Christian Youth play instead of
Floyd | Romans and Christians now. In Sardines, a person hides somewhere and
Floyd | then everyone else looks for that person and when you find them you
Floyd | have to get in the hiding place and hide with them. It is fantastic.
Floyd | It's a lot less hectic than Romans and Christians."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "oh. Hide n Seek variant."

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up romans and christians"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP ROMANS AND CHRISTIANSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Romans and Christians is the game we used to play at church. The
Floyd | rules were, you had two Romans, and everyone else was the Christians,
Floyd | and the Christians just ran around the church in the dark while the
Floyd | Romans tried to catch them and take them to the Jail, which was a
Floyd | couch. If there are any other rules then I'm forgetting them.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The excitement of being actively chased around the church caused a
Floyd | lot of Christians to kinda lose their heads and occasionally break
Floyd | stuff, so we started playing Sardines instead."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP MURALFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts
Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT
Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with
Floyd | JONAH."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "l"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up lighthouse"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP LIGHTHOUSEFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The
Floyd | lighthouse symbolizes how the church is a beacon of guidance to the
Floyd | rest of the world. I don't mean my church specifically, I mean all of
Floyd | Christianity. Or at least Methodists."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Black Light Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Black Light RoomFloyd | You flip the light switch, but the only things that light up are your
Floyd | shirt and your socks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black walls in here have been painted with Bible verses that glow
Floyd | underneath the UV lights. The couches are glowing, too; unsettlingly
Floyd | green. The door to the north, on the other hand, is barely visible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Propped up in one corner is a rough wooden cross.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Black Light Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X WOODEN CROSSFloyd |
Floyd | You have to guess that whoever constructed this cross purposefully
Floyd | chose the roughest, most splintery lumber available.
Floyd |
Floyd | Around the center plank (which is twice as tall as you are), on top of
Floyd | the crossbar, is a "crown of thorns" made from rusty barbed wire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "I wonder if our notes have invisible writing?"

Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah."

Doug says (to Floyd), "x notes"

Floyd ] Black Light Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X NOTESFloyd |
Floyd | The notebook is thick, and as you flick through the pages, it looks
Floyd | like it's nearly full. Surely Casey didn't make notes about
Floyd | everything in the church? How long did he spend on this
Floyd | anyway?
Floyd |
Floyd | There's way too much information here to sit down and read it all at
Floyd | once, but you can look up anything you want to know about.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up jonah"

Floyd ] Black Light Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP JONAHFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts
Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT
Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with
Floyd | JONAH."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Black Light Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP JENNIEFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | don't know how much you already know about the ghost in the church so
Floyd | I'll give you the whole story. Jennie Bancroft is the name of the
Floyd | ghost that haunts Grace United Methodist. She used to be alive, but
Floyd | then she died, in or around the church, sometime in the distant past.
Floyd | I keep meaning to look up when she died but I haven't had time.
Floyd |
Floyd | "When people see her, she looks like a teenage girl in pigtails. I
Floyd | don't think she shows up covered in blood or anything like that; she's
Floyd | just a sad girl. Obviously a lot of the time she's invisible though.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Some of the evidence that we have for her existence includes:
Floyd |
Floyd | - sounds of footsteps and a girl crying when nobody else is in the
Floyd | church
Floyd | - cold spots in rooms, rooms that suddenly become cold for no reason
Floyd | - stuff goes missing, then shows up again
Floyd | - you see someone at the end of the hallway but when you get to the
Floyd | end of the hallway there's nobody there
Floyd | - basically everybody has seen her out of the corner of their eye at
Floyd | some point
Floyd |
Floyd | "Debate continues on the subject of how Jennie died. Popular theories
Floyd | state that she jumped off of the church steeple, or she drank poison,
Floyd | or used a space heater to carbon monoxide herself. According to one
Floyd | explanation she died accidentally, because she was using a Ouija
Floyd | board, but that theory is idiotic. Jennie Bancroft definitely
Floyd | committed suicide, and it was definitely because of a boy she was in
Floyd | love with."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "oh, we already looked her up, right"

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south
Floyd | to the black light room.
Floyd |
Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold your gooey hand out, away from your body, so as not to get
Floyd | any ectoplasm on your clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room.
Floyd |
Floyd | NurseryFloyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up
Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out
Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits
Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the
Floyd | basement stairway and south to the youth room are dark as well.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when
Floyd | you finish your investigation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharon's makeshift bed doesn't look comfortable, but apparently she's
Floyd | fast asleep anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "guess the washroom is upstairs"

DavidW says, "oh, I was gonna try putting the plasm into the trophy"

Doug says, "oh, go for it"

DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south
Floyd | to the black light room.
Floyd |
Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd | You turn the lights off in the youth room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd | You switch the lights on in the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north.
Floyd | Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Boiler Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd | You turn the lights off in the basement stairway and switch the lights
Floyd | on in the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Boiler RoomFloyd | All of a sudden you feel very claustrophobic. This must be a fairly
Floyd | large room, but most of the space is given over to snaking pipes,
Floyd | anonymous machinery, and the church's giant boiler.
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ectoplasm drips off your fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "up"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom
Floyd | >Floyd | > X MEFloyd |
Floyd | You are Robin Monaghan, high school junior, associate reporter for the
Floyd | West High Warbler. You are not overly fond of churches, and
Floyd | you have never claimed to believe in ghosts, but here you are.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says, "bah, I expected to see a ghost standing behind us"

Doug says (to Floyd), "x photo"

Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTOFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the photo of the cat looking through the window,
Floyd | the photo of the bird cage, the photo of you taking a photo of
Floyd | yourself, the photo of the flickering lights, the photo of darkness,
Floyd | or the photo of the ladies' room mirrors?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "Maybe we can, yeah. There could be an entire vat of the stuff."

Jacqueline says, "Oh, right, it was dark at the time."

Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "We could go for a swim!"

DavidW says, "excellent idea. It'll change our movie rating!"

Doug says (to Floyd), "out"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > OUTFloyd |
Floyd | The door swings shut behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up office"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP OFFICEFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "You
Floyd | used to be able to get into the pastor's office all the time, back
Floyd | when Patrick the youth leader had his own sub-office at one end of the
Floyd | room where he had free candy. But that was a security risk apparently,
Floyd | so they locked up the pastor's office and Patrick the youth leader had
Floyd | to move his office to his truck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug asks, "so he keeps free candy in his truck?"

DavidW says, "I guess so. What a nice man."

inky says (to Floyd), "x model"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > X MODELFloyd |
Floyd | It can't be a model of this church; it's the wrong shape. There's an
Floyd | incredible level of detail, though, from the tiles in the roof to the
Floyd | tiny people on the sidewalk. The double doors in front are open, and
Floyd | you can barely make out the shapes of little pews inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x church"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CHURCHFloyd |
Floyd | It can't be a model of this church; it's the wrong shape. There's an
Floyd | incredible level of detail, though, from the tiles in the roof to the
Floyd | tiny people on the sidewalk. The double doors in front are open, and
Floyd | you can barely make out the shapes of little pews inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CHURCHFloyd |
Floyd | It can't be a model of this church; it's the wrong shape. There's an
Floyd | incredible level of detail, though, from the tiles in the roof to the
Floyd | tiny people on the sidewalk. The double doors in front are open, and
Floyd | you can barely make out the shapes of little pews inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up fingerprints"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP FINGERPRINTSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The
Floyd | model church is a model of some other church. I think it used to be
Floyd | inside of that church, but it got torn down, or they went bankrupt,
Floyd | and the model ended up in our church. It's kind of a creepy object,
Floyd | though. The guy who made it was clearly way too obsessed with his
Floyd | church."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Sometimes you just notice that no one cleans. That might be all the fingerprints are about."

DavidW says, "anyway, I'm lost without mapping."

djfletch says, "to kitchen or narthex"

inky says, "normally when there's a model you can use it to see secret rooms in the current building or something"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to the main floor stairway, east, and
Floyd | west to the narthex.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "or something's concealed inside you can get by manipulating the model"

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | KitchenFloyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any
Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards
Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to
Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the
Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sturdy box is sitting on the floor in the corner, with some cans in
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Somebody forgot to put away an empty jam jar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "That box of cans was probably for a food drive, you meanie."

Jacqueline exclaims, "You thieves!"

Doug says (to Floyd), "put cans in box"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUT CANS IN BOXFloyd |
Floyd | can of tomato soup: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you
Floyd | return the can of tomato soup to its original location.
Floyd | can of pears: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you return
Floyd | the can of pears to its original location.
Floyd | can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product": Your conscience gets the
Floyd | better of you, and you return the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food
Floyd | Product" to its original location.
Floyd | can of cherry pie filling: Your conscience gets the better of you, and
Floyd | you return the can of cherry pie filling to its original location.
Floyd | can of tuna: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you return
Floyd | the can of tuna to its original location.
Floyd | can of chicken soup: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you
Floyd | return the can of chicken soup to its original location.
Floyd | can of peaches: Your conscience gets the better of you, and you return
Floyd | the can of peaches to its original location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > X BOXFloyd |
Floyd | An old label on the box says "Navel Oranges", but someone has written
Floyd | "FOOD BANK" over that. Apparently they thought they'd need a good
Floyd | sturdy crate for all the Food Bank donations they'd get.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the orange box are a can of peaches, a can of chicken soup, a can
Floyd | of tuna, a can of cherry pie filling, a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat
Floyd | Food Product", a can of pears, and a can of tomato soup.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The jar has lost its lid, but it appears to be clean and sterile
Floyd | anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP KITCHENFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "If
Floyd | you've seen Jurassic Park then the kitchen is really scary in
Floyd | the dark. If you haven't seen Jurassic Park then you should
Floyd | get around to that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > X BOXFloyd |
Floyd | An old label on the box says "Navel Oranges", but someone has written
Floyd | "FOOD BANK" over that. Apparently they thought they'd need a good
Floyd | sturdy crate for all the Food Bank donations they'd get.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the orange box are a can of peaches, a can of chicken soup, a can
Floyd | of tuna, a can of cherry pie filling, a can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat
Floyd | Food Product", a can of pears, and a can of tomato soup.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up food bank"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP FOOD BANKFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | On the subject of canned food Casey writes, "I'm pretty sure the
Floyd | people who are supposed to be in charge of donating stuff to the Food
Floyd | Bank are really disorganized, because you always see spare cans of
Floyd | stuff lying around. Or maybe some of the cans were rejected by the
Floyd | Food Bank. I don't know how it works."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | KitchenFloyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any
Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards
Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to
Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the
Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > X TAGSFloyd |
Floyd | There must be a name tag on here for everybody who's ever set foot in
Floyd | this church. There's Casey's, and there's Orchid's, and this one says
Floyd | "Robin"—but they must mean some other Robin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > TURN PAGEFloyd |
Floyd | You flip aimlessly through the book, and eventually your gaze lands on
Floyd | a passage: "Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the
Floyd | power to interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my
Floyd | mind is unproductive."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "turn page"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > TURN PAGEFloyd |
Floyd | You flip aimlessly through the book, and eventually your gaze lands on
Floyd | a passage: "But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if
Floyd | every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself
Floyd | could not contain the books that would be written."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP JESUSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts
Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT
Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with
Floyd | JONAH."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless. Orchid hasn't turned the lights on either; you can barely
Floyd | make out anything in the gloom.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid comes over to meet you. "I didn't find anything up here," she
Floyd | says, "how about you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd | You catch just a glimpse of the ghost in the darkness before it floats
Floyd | towards the back wall and vanishes. When you switch the light on, the
Floyd | room is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PANELSFloyd |
Floyd | Looking closely at the walls, you realise that one of the panels on
Floyd | the wall is sitting slightly further forward than the others.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "open panel"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > OPEN PANELFloyd |
Floyd | You're not quite sure how to open the panel, or even if it can be
Floyd | opened. You jiggle it experimentally and it shifts a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > PULL PANELFloyd |
Floyd | You grab the edges of the panel and try to pull it towards you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing much seems to happen at first, but then the panel shifts
Floyd | upward and slides to the side. Behind it a narrow tunnel leads
Floyd | downwards. You open and close the panel a few more times to make sure
Floyd | you know how it works, and then leave it open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "whoa"

Jacqueline says, "whoa"

DavidW says, "Secret room churches are teh best churches!"

Jacqueline asks, "Who's awesome?"

Doug asks, "we still have no light source. wait, were there candles?"

Doug says, "yeah, on the altar"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > X LARGE CROSSFloyd |
Floyd | It must be fifteen feet from top to bottom. The wood is smooth, and
Floyd | the proportions are graceful. Aesthetically speaking, it is a very
Floyd | pleasant object.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > X AMERICANFloyd |
Floyd | Although it's lying furled against its post, you can easily tell that
Floyd | this is an American flag. This one has tassels around the edges, and
Floyd | an eagle figurine is perched at the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "That's why I tried to open the altar, in case the matches were right there."

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP ORCHIDFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Here's an anecdote about Orchid. This happened just recently. I
Floyd | didn't tell you, because I wanted to save it for here. Okay:
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm at school after hours because of rehearsals. But we're still in
Floyd | the fairly lazy stage of the production, so there's lots of time to
Floyd | just goof off around the school. So while the underclassmen are
Floyd | sitting around in the hall running lines, I head up to the drama
Floyd | office, because there are donuts there.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But Orchid and Aiden Kingsley are already up in the office, and as
Floyd | soon as I poke my head in Orchid looks up and says 'Actors only,
Floyd | please!' and I'm like 'Actually, I am an actor,' and she says, 'Well,
Floyd | you know what I mean.'
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, Orchid! I do not have the slightest idea what you mean. I would
Floyd | have just grabbed a donut and left, but you're not allowed to take the
Floyd | donuts out of the drama office, so I just left.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wouldn't say I hate Orchid. Hate is a very strong word. I
Floyd | completely hate Aiden, though."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "Orchid's probably kidnapped by the monster of the week. We might find her shoe later."

Doug says, "or Aiden"

Doug asks, "well, should we try the secret passage without a light source?"

Jacqueline asks, "Will Orchid be the Xander of this tale?"

djfletch says, "we haven't been up from here to the balcony yet"

djfletch says, "could do that first"

Doug says (to Floyd), "up"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to the altar, south to the narthex,
Floyd | and east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the
Floyd | sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says, "must have been east"

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the
Floyd | sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s then e"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > S THEN EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "up"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PEWSFloyd |
Floyd | (the balcony pews)
Floyd | There are only a few rows of pews up here, mounted on a series of
Floyd | steps so the people at the back can still see down to the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x cables"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CABLESFloyd |
Floyd | It's hard to tell what this stuff is for with it all tumbled into a
Floyd | heap like that. There are some metal bars, and some pulleys and
Floyd | things, and a lot of tangled cables connecting things together.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "and you thought that was ectoplasm, but it's really unsweetened jello"

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bars"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X BARSFloyd |
Floyd | It's hard to tell what this stuff is for with it all tumbled into a
Floyd | heap like that. There are some metal bars, and some pulleys and
Floyd | things, and a lot of tangled cables connecting things together.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X TRAPDOORFloyd |
Floyd | The trapdoor is set into the ceiling, well above your head. The cord
Floyd | to pull it down seems to have got caught in the door, and only a small
Floyd | loop is visible on this side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "also, I wonder what happens if we go to sleep now with the evidence we have collected"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CORDFloyd |
Floyd | The cord to open the trapdoor is caught up in the door. You can just
Floyd | see a small loop sticking out between the ceiling and the edge of the
Floyd | trapdoor, well out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat trots up the stairs and mews at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

says, "So, for people who may be new, to save, don't talk to Floyd, just type >PRESS SAVE"

Doug says, "I did that this time, but I didn't clear the save counter first."

Doug asks, "everyone ok with trying to go to sleep to get a ghosts-are-real ending?"

Jacqueline asks, "Oh crap, had we already saved and I missed it?"

Jacqueline asks, "And then I cleared the save?"

Doug says, "no biggie"

DavidW says, "I don't have a complete enough map to get us down to our cot."

Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Sure."

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head up and down to the the balcony stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "down"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DOWNFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check
Floyd | whether you're following.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Do you remember what your save number was? Since you didn't clear the counter it's probably still there if we want to rescue it."

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | "It sounds like you had quite the spooky evening!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "It certainly seemed that way at the time, but now I'm not so sure.
Floyd | Take a look at these," you say, handing Casey your photos.
Floyd |
Floyd | He points at the image of the flickering lights. "I imagine these were
Floyd | more impressive in motion."
Floyd |
Floyd | "How did you know they were moving?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, they look kinda like lights from a party ball."
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the picture again. He has a point.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And you collected some ectoplasm?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I collected this." You hand him the jar.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Looks like ectoplasm to me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Does it look like it could be anything else?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, I guess. It could be..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It could be anything."
Floyd |
Floyd | He lifts the photo of the floating girl. "Now, this photo looks like a
Floyd | ghost," he says, "but I mean, it also kind of looks like any number of
Floyd | fake ghost photos you see all over the place. Not that I don't believe
Floyd | it was a real ghost, but other people might not find it so
Floyd | convincing." He tries to smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | He sighs. "So, what are you thinking?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I think I was duped."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** They ended up running the story anyway. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the
Floyd | last command?
Floyd | >

inky says, "well, I guess that makes it pretty clear"

Doug says, "hmm. proof not convincing enough (yet)"

Doug says (to Floyd), "restore"

Floyd | >Floyd | > RESTOREFloyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

Doug says (to Floyd), "cf6"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "open tuna"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > OPEN TUNAFloyd |
Floyd | After a few moments' work with the can opener, the can is open,
Floyd | revealing a pungent mass of tuna.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Casey is a turd."

DavidW says, "The floating girl we saw could've been from the projector."

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X TRAPDOORFloyd |
Floyd | The trapdoor is set into the ceiling, well above your head. The cord
Floyd | to pull it down seems to have got caught in the door, and only a small
Floyd | loop is visible on this side.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat trots up the stairs and mews at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline exclaims, "Were it a real cat, we could stand anywhere in the church and open the tin of tuna and BAM! INSTANT CAT!"

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up altar"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP ALTARFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Many church enthusiasts use the word "altar" to refer not only to the
Floyd | little table with the candles, but also to the raised area at the
Floyd | front of the sanctuary where the little table with the candles is
Floyd | located. This practice is completely incorrect and extremely stupid.
Floyd | The raised area is called a 'raised area' or I guess maybe a 'stage'."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the west before you
Floyd | can get near it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > UFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CAGEFloyd |
Floyd | (the bird cage)
Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this
Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so
Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird
Floyd | cage?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up projector"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP PROJECTORFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Someone donated money for a projector to the church, and it caused
Floyd | this big kerfuffle in the Board of Trustees because they didn't really
Floyd | want a projector. But they couldn't spend the money on anything else,
Floyd | so now we have a projector that we never use!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X THIS CAGEFloyd |
Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this
Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so
Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird
Floyd | cage?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "open that cage"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > OPEN THAT CAGEFloyd |
Floyd | The cage is locked, presumably to stop people like you from messing
Floyd | with the projector.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "well, if you read English.h, it's there."

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON HYMNALSFloyd |
Floyd | You step up onto the stack of hymnals, careful not to knock any of
Floyd | them out of place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "sing"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > SINGFloyd |
Floyd | You mutter the West High fight song under your breath:
Floyd |
Floyd | Fight, Fight, West HighFloyd | Stomp 'Em Out Like AntsFloyd | Mortify The Other GuyFloyd | And Make Him Pee His PantsFloyd |
Floyd | But it doesn't make you feel any better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Back Room (on the stack of hymnals)
Floyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the stack of hymnals.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > S. E. U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the
Floyd | sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to the back room and south to the
Floyd | sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "fail"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s. e. u."

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > S. E. U.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the stack of hymnals.
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a stack of hymnals here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Balcony (on the upside-down orange box) (on the stack of
Floyd | hymnals)
Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the stack of hymnals you can see a bird cage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "no, put the hymnals on the box now."

djfletch says, "this seems to me like a good way to end up dying in a church and becoming a ghost"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the upside-down orange box.
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony (on the stack of hymnals)
Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the stack of hymnals you can also see a bird cage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the stack of hymnals.
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a stack of hymnals here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "I have a mental map"

DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says, "I have a paper map"

DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head south to the youth room and west to the
Floyd | basement stairway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south
Floyd | to the black light room.
Floyd |
Floyd | A garish golden trophy catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis asks, "Can this be used as a hook?"

inky says, "hmm"

inky says, "well, it's worth a shot"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "push trolley east"

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY EASTFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south
Floyd | to the black light room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "Wait, it can't be the trolley. I doubt I can push it up the stairs."

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "push trolley n"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUSH TROLLEY SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "I am really hoping there is an ending where we fall and break our neck and haunt Casey."

DavidW says, "There's other rooms we missed upstairs, I think"

djfletch says, "I think reaching with the trophy is worth a try"

DavidW says, "And we assumed we needed a light for the secret room without even trying."

djfletch says, "the only exits I have left are maybe the men's bathroom if we are allowed in there"

djfletch says, "and yes the secret passage"

DavidW says, "So frustrated when no one tries."

djfletch says, "also the dark hallway storage rooms when we get a light source"

Draconis says, "I feel we need to use something as a hook, because REACH FOR CORD gave a disambiguation message."

Doug says, "I was going to try but got distracted trying to light the candles on the altar"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "u"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > UFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "yes, that's very possible, and the box and hymnals might be just alternate ways of giving us the extra height."

Floyd ] Men's Restroom
Floyd | >Floyd | > NEFloyd |
Floyd | That's it. Enough with this cowardice.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door swings shut behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Men's RestroomFloyd | Yes, this is more or less what you expected.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are some stalls, and some mirrors, and some sinks, and next to
Floyd | those is a garbage can. The only things you haven't seen before are
Floyd | the urinals. Hardly worth having an ethical dilemma over.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > OUTFloyd |
Floyd | The door swings shut behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Ladies' Restroom
Floyd | >Floyd | > SEARCH CANFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the open can of tuna, a ladies' room garbage can,
Floyd | the ladies' room garbage can, the men's room garbage can, the can of
Floyd | tomato soup, the can of pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food
Floyd | Product", the can of cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or
Floyd | the can of peaches?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > OUTFloyd |
Floyd | The door swings shut behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > S.W.N.E.U.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "drop can"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > DROP CANFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the open can of tuna, the ladies' room garbage can,
Floyd | a ladies' room garbage can, the men's room garbage can, the can of
Floyd | tomato soup, the can of pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food
Floyd | Product", the can of cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or
Floyd | the can of peaches?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "If we can put the upside-down box across both upside-down wastebins like a bridge and THEN stand on the box, I'd be both very impressed and very surprised."

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the upside-down ladies' room garbage can.
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bars"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X BARSFloyd |
Floyd | It's hard to tell what this stuff is for with it all tumbled into a
Floyd | heap like that. There are some metal bars, and some pulleys and
Floyd | things, and a lot of tangled cables connecting things together.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "I think 'reach' simplest guesses that the direct object, when omitted, is the one last referred to that is still present."

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Balcony (on the upside-down ladies' room garbage can)
Floyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis asks, "Wait, can't you just include both "has container" and "has supporter"?"

DavidW says (to Draconis), "no, and that' I6 anyway."

djfletch says, "I am betting there is a broom or mop or something in one of the dark storage rooms"

Draconis asks (of DavidW), "Oh, is it because of the way the heirarchy is handled for each?"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the upside-down ladies' room garbage can.
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "But even in I6, you can't have both flags simultaneously without breaking something."

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "Does that mean the can drop it somewhere to make ... timing"

djfletch says, "I can drive there"

djfletch says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it
Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides
Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand,
Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and
Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little
Floyd | children.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you
Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't
Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x mural"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > X MURALFloyd |

djfletch says, "no lights this time"

Floyd | Which do you mean, the bluish blob, the indistinct smear, or the
Floyd | swathe of yellow?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at
Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must
Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the
Floyd | walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | Your flailing about in the dark eventually discovers a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at
Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must
Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the
Floyd | walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "oh, try now"

djfletch asks, "so to the black light room to make it glow better?"

Draconis says, "Works now, thanks."

Doug says, "had to change the access so that anyone with the link can access."

DavidW says, "I'm lost where we are now."

Draconis says (to djfletch), "Sounds good."

djfletch says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you
Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't
Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat strolls in from the south and purrs at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Doesn't work for me."

djfletch asks, "anything else to try with the cat while it's here?"

Jacqueline | Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist.

Doug says, "I see an anonymous fox and an anonymous hedgehog connected to this document."

Jacqueline says, "Oh, I see why."

Jacqueline says, "One sec."

Jacqueline says, "Yeah, got it."

Jacqueline says, "My browser had inserted a %20 at the spot where the URL had a line break from my mudclient."

djfletch says, "you can put kitchen east of fellowship hall"

djfletch says, "then you would have the same as me for that floor"

Doug says, "oh right, kitchen"

Doug asks, "I think anyone can edit?"

djfletch says (to Floyd), "drop tuna"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > DROP TUNAFloyd |
Floyd | (the open can of tuna)
Floyd | You place the open can of tuna carefully on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat wanders off to the south, glancing back at you as if to check
Floyd | whether you're following.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "No, I'm view-only."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "follow cat"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > FOLLOW CATFloyd |
Floyd | (heading south)
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it
Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides
Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand,
Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and
Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little
Floyd | children.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "again"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > AGAINFloyd |
Floyd | (heading east)
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check
Floyd | whether you're following.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "again"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > AGAINFloyd |
Floyd | (heading north)
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat scampers up the stairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "again"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > AGAINFloyd |
Floyd | (heading up)
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "again"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > AGAINFloyd |
Floyd | (heading south)
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat wanders off to the west, glancing back at you as if to check
Floyd | whether you're following.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "again"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > AGAINFloyd |
Floyd | (heading west)
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the north before you
Floyd | can get near it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "again"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > AGAINFloyd |
Floyd | (heading north)
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off
Floyd | to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "again"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > AGAINFloyd |
Floyd | (heading north)
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the north before you
Floyd | can get near it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "Okay, this is pointless."

Draconis says, "Sorry."

Draconis says, "But now I can run this through Trizbort."

Doug says, "I thnk you can edit now"

Jacqueline says, "Thanks for setting that up, Doug."

Doug says, "sure. turned out to be easier than I thought"

djfletch says, "it was worth trying the cat anyway"

djfletch says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "I hadn't tried Google Docs Drawing before"

DavidW says, "sorry, was afk for several turns there"

djfletch says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Youth Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south
Floyd | to the black light room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Black Light Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTOSFloyd |
Floyd | You're holding ten photos:
Floyd | two photos of the glowing tissue paper
Floyd | a photo of the ghostly figure floating in the air
Floyd | a photo of the model church
Floyd | a photo of the ladies' room mirrors
Floyd | a photo of darkness
Floyd | a photo of the flickering lights
Floyd | a photo of you taking a photo of yourself
Floyd | a photo of the bird cage
Floyd | a photo of the cat looking through the window
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "yeah, heh."

djfletch says, "nice"

DavidW says, "Clever to make the photos a single object."

Draconis says, "Definitely."

Draconis asks, "Is the source released?"

djfletch says, "anyway I have no more ideas except to go in the secret passage"

DavidW says, "I missed the url for the map."

djfletch says, "oh unless we can use the potted plant as a reachy thing, but it doesn't seem very likely"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x cage"

Floyd ] Black Light Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CAGEFloyd |
Floyd | The curving faux-wrought-iron bars and caked-on "rust" identify this
Floyd | as one of the non-functioning, overpriced decorations which are so
Floyd | popular in craft stores. What does a Sunday School need with a bird
Floyd | cage?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | > LOOK UP BLACKLIGHTFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Yes! This room! So, Patrick the youth leader got us together a few
Floyd | years ago and had us paint the walls of this room black, and then
Floyd | paint Bible verses on it, and then install black lights instead of
Floyd | normal lights, so it would look like a Christian rave or whatever. And
Floyd | I mean it looks fairly cool, I guess.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But when you have a dark room, with purple lights, and a bunch of
Floyd | couches, and then you invite teenagers into the room and leave them in
Floyd | that room unattended, what happens is, the teenagers will use that
Floyd | room for what Patrick the youth leader calls 'heavy petting'.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So that's why this room is called the Black Light Make-Out Room."
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Black Light Make-Out Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK AT ECTOPLASM UNDER BLACKLIGHTSFloyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "Wait, I just realized the tissue can't really relate to the ectoplasm."

DavidW asks, "so, did we ever check out the back room's north passage?"

Draconis says, "I don't remember."

djfletch says, "not yet"

Draconis says, "Let's try it."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "n.w.n.u."

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > N.W.N.U.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Youth RoomFloyd | A large part of this room is taken up by a rickety ping pong table.
Floyd | Couches line the edges of the room, some of them close enough to the
Floyd | table that they're probably not safe to sit on if someone is actually
Floyd | playing ping pong. On the other hand, you can't see any ping pong bats
Floyd | anywhere, so maybe that's not an issue. In between the couches, doors
Floyd | lead north to the nursery, west to the Sunday School room, and south
Floyd | to the black light make-out room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says, "also, this cross reminds me there was one with barbed wire on it somewhere"

djfletch says, "which maybe we could make into a hook"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "s.w.n.n.n.n."

Floyd ] Tunnel
Floyd | >Floyd | > S.W.N.N.N.N.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the sliding door you find a steep, narrow flight of stairs with
Floyd | no handrail. You walk down them slowly, not wanting to miss your
Floyd | footing in the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | TunnelFloyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow
Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the
Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the
Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal
Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying
Floyd | in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "barbed wire?"

DavidW says, "I don't remember any barbed wire."

djfletch says, "a crown of thorns on a cross somewhere I think said it was made of barbed wire"

Floyd ] Tunnel
Floyd | >Floyd | > PRESS BUTTONFloyd |
Floyd | The button clicks, and blue light streams from the glass panels on the
Floyd | sphere, reflecting off the cheap-looking mirror and scattering across
Floyd | the walls and ceiling. This must be one of those party light sphere
Floyd | things that are supposed to make your house look like a nightclub or
Floyd | something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > S.S.S.S.E.N.D.
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the heavy door)
Floyd |
Floyd | End of HallwayFloyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David
Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of
Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Echoing footsteps draw your attention to a figure walking down the
Floyd | south end of the hallway, but whoever it is goes into the Sunday
Floyd | School room before you can see their face.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway.
Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on
Floyd | the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway continues to run north and south. The wall here is taken
Floyd | up by a mural of a beached whale and a man lying on the sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an open can of tuna here.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north, past the plywood lighthouse, all the way up to
Floyd | the door to the tunnel. A doorway to the east leads into the Sunday
Floyd | School room, and on the wall opposite it is the mural of Jesus
Floyd | blessing the little children.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head north to the boiler room, south to the
Floyd | Sunday School room, east to the nursery, and up to the main floor
Floyd | stairway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > U.S.W.N.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Tigrita), "You can @recap #toyshop 1500 or some crazy big number to read all of what's transpired."

Doug says, "now that we turned the basement lights on, we can explore the hallway some more"

Draconis says (to Jacqueline), "IIRC the max is 1000."

Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "Nope."

Jacqueline says, "Not even close."

Tigrita says (to floyd), "x photos"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTOSFloyd |
Floyd | You're holding ten photos:
Floyd | two photos of the glowing tissue paper
Floyd | a photo of the ghostly figure floating in the air
Floyd | a photo of the model church
Floyd | a photo of the ladies' room mirrors
Floyd | a photo of darkness
Floyd | a photo of the flickering lights
Floyd | a photo of you taking a photo of yourself
Floyd | a photo of the bird cage
Floyd | a photo of the cat looking through the window
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "I think we should explore the hallway more, yes. But fill in Tigrita more first."

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Tigrita says (to floyd), "x photo of me"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PHOTO OF ME

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out it's not that easy taking a photo of yourself with a
Floyd | Polaroid camera. The picture came out slightly blurry; you're not sure
Floyd | if it's because you weren't holding the camera still, or because it
Floyd | was too close to your face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Tunnel
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | TunnelFloyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow
Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the
Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the
Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal
Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a cheap-looking mirror here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] End of Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > X DAVIDFloyd |
Floyd | David stands poised, ready to sling a stone at Goliath. The mural
Floyd | makes him look like a ten-year-old. You can't really remember the the
Floyd | details of the story now, but surely he'd have to be a bit older than
Floyd | that before he was allowed to do battle with giants.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Tigirita), "Our character's name is Robin. A classmate named Orchid is somewhere exploring too, and a school teacher named Sharon is sleeping in the basement."

DavidW says, "We have oodles of notes from Casey. I forget who he or she is exactly,."

Doug says (to Tigrita), "you can LOOK UP stuff to read about stuff in the newspaper editor Casey's notes"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up david"

Floyd ] End of Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP DAVIDFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts
Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT
Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with
Floyd | JONAH."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "When we think we have enough evidence for our story, we're to go to sleep on our cot."

djfletch says, "I think the thing we missed before was this: "Echoing footsteps draw your attention to a figure walking down the south end of the hallway, but whoever it is goes into the Sunday School room before you can see their face.""

Draconis says, "That was it."

DavidW says, "yes, that was what I saw."

Doug says (to Floyd), "x door"

Floyd ] End of Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > X DOORFloyd |
Floyd | There's no writing on the door, but it could hardly say KEEP OUT more
Floyd | clearly if there were.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "But then we went straight to the Sunday School Room and it was empty."

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP RAINBOWFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts
Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT
Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with
Floyd | JONAH."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "So it's probably not too important."

djfletch says, "have we photographed the mirror and sphere yet? They would be evidence of making fake blue lights."

Floyd | HallwayFloyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway.
Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on
Floyd | the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage WestFloyd | You can see a manger (empty), a huge stack of plastic chairs, a tin of
Floyd | half-used crayons, a pile of tiny hempen robes, a shepherd's crook,
Floyd | several big cloth signs, a tricycle, an unopened packet of
Floyd | marshmallows, an exercise ball, some paper streamer chains, and a door
Floyd | leading out to the hall here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis asks, "Shepherd's crook?"

Doug says, "lotsa junk!"

Draconis says, "Sounds like the right chape to open the trapdoor!"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "get crook"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > GET CROOK

DavidW says (to Draconis), "good call."

Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x it"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >

Doug says, "yep"

Floyd | > X ITFloyd |
Floyd | A wooden pole with a large hook at one end. Presumably this is for the
Floyd | Christmas play. Judging by its size, the shepherds are played by
Floyd | children.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x manger"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > X MANGERFloyd |
Floyd | This is clearly a manger from a Nativity scene—some wisps of hay are
Floyd | still caught in the corners. But baby Jesus is nowhere to be seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > UNROLL SIGNSFloyd |
Floyd | There's no room to unroll them in here, and anyway you'd never be able
Floyd | to roll them up again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "get signs"

djfletch says, "oh no the ghost has stolen Jesus"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > GET SIGNSFloyd |
Floyd | You start to pick up one of the signs, but it slips through your hands
Floyd | and starts to unroll, so you quickly push it back into place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "hmph"

Draconis asks, "Did we check east?"

Doug says, "not yet"

Tigrita says (to floyd), "x marshmallows"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > X MARSHMALLOWSFloyd |
Floyd | The best before date is smudged, but judging by the layer of dust on
Floyd | the packet you suspect they're well past it by now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "ghost poo"

Doug says (to Floyd), "x ball"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > X BALLFloyd |
Floyd | (the party light sphere)
Floyd | It's one of those party light sphere things, a black metal ball with
Floyd | bright blue light glowing out of the glass panels set into it. Turning
Floyd | it over, you notice that it's heavyish and slightly warm to the touch.
Floyd | Your fingers also find a small button on the top? base? side? of the
Floyd | sphere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | The robes could only be worn by children, but they could represent any
Floyd | number of Bible characters. They've been tossed on the floor in a
Floyd | pitiable heap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Storage WestFloyd | You can see a manger (empty), a huge stack of plastic chairs, a tin of
Floyd | half-used crayons, a pile of tiny hempen robes, several big cloth
Floyd | signs, a tricycle, an unopened packet of marshmallows, an exercise
Floyd | ball, some paper streamer chains, and a door leading out to the hall
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > GET ROBESFloyd |
Floyd | You pick up the robes, but only to fold them neatly and put them back
Floyd | in a tidier pile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Tigrita asks, "shall we be off?"

Doug says, "hooray tidier"

Doug says (to Floyd), "x robes"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > X ROBESFloyd |
Floyd | The robes could only be worn by children, but they could represent any
Floyd | number of Bible characters. They have been folded and stacked up
Floyd | neatly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x chains"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CHAINSFloyd |
Floyd | Colorful chains made out of paper streamers, like you might use as
Floyd | decorations for a kid's birthday party. The links are all different
Floyd | sizes, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the choice of
Floyd | colors. At a guess, you'd say the Sunday School children made these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage EastFloyd | This place is a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to
Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing
Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near
Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of
Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a
Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Noah's Ark and a plywood Ark of the Covenant
Floyd | are sitting on the floor by the cabinet. There's a case labelled
Floyd | "HANDBELLS" on the Ark of the Covenant.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf,
Floyd | glistening strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x glistening"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > X GLISTENINGFloyd |
Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't
Floyd | get a look at it from your current height.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > DROP CANFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the glistening container, the men's room garbage
Floyd | can, the men's room garbage can, the can of tomato soup, the can of
Floyd | pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product", the can of
Floyd | cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or the can of peaches?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > FLIP CANFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the men's room garbage can, the men's room garbage
Floyd | can, the glistening container, the can of tomato soup, the can of
Floyd | pears, the can of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product", the can of
Floyd | cherry pie filling, the can of chicken soup, or the can of peaches?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > X ARK OF THE COVENANTFloyd |
Floyd | This wooden box has been spraypainted gold and detailed with glitter
Floyd | markers in an attempt to convey that this is an object of great value.
Floyd | It's two feet tall, two feet deep, and maybe four feet long.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the plywood Ark of the Covenant is a case labelled "HANDBELLS".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > X GLISTENINGFloyd |
Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't
Floyd | get a look at it from your current height.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis asks, "Where did we leave that box?"

Tigrita says (to floyd), "take glistening"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > TAKE GLISTENINGFloyd |
Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't
Floyd | reach it from your current position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "The trolley might be of use now."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the upside-down men's room garbage can.
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage EastFloyd | This place is a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to
Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing
Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near
Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of
Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a
Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Noah's Ark and a plywood Ark of the Covenant
Floyd | are sitting on the floor by the cabinet. There's a case labelled
Floyd | "HANDBELLS" on the Ark of the Covenant.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf,
Floyd | glistening strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | This thing is much too big, and probably much too loud, for this
Floyd | church. That's probably why it's down here collecting dust.
Floyd |
Floyd | The amplifier is about two feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat strolls in from the west and mews at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON AMPLIFIERFloyd |
Floyd | You climb up onto the amplifier.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Tigrita), "hee"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "get glistening"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > GET GLISTENINGFloyd |
Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; you can't
Floyd | reach it from your current height.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "oh, we dropped the tuna"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You clamber down again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage EastFloyd | This place is a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to
Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing
Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near
Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of
Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a
Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Noah's Ark and a plywood Ark of the Covenant
Floyd | are sitting on the floor by the cabinet. There's a case labelled
Floyd | "HANDBELLS" on the Ark of the Covenant.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf,
Floyd | glistening strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "put can on amp"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUT CAN ON AMPFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the can of tomato soup, the can of pears, the can
Floyd | of "Sugarman's Potted Meat Food Product", the can of cherry pie
Floyd | filling, the can of chicken soup, the can of peaches, the upside-down
Floyd | men's room garbage can, the upside-down men's room garbage can, or the
Floyd | glistening container?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "yeah, the tuna is in some faraway room now. The STOLEN tuna."

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > REACH GLISTENING WITH CROOKFloyd |
Floyd | The glistening container is up on top of the wall shelves; even if you
Floyd | could reach it with the crook, the most you could do is knock it off
Floyd | onto the floor and make a huge mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUT OTHER ARK ON ARKFloyd |
Floyd | (the plywood Noah's Ark on the plywood Ark of the Covenant)
Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too large to fit on the plywood Ark of the
Floyd | Covenant while the case labelled "HANDBELLS" is still on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch asks, "wasn't there an Indiana Jones film where they opened the ark of the convenant and everyone died?"

Draconis says (to djfletch), "The first one."

Doug says, "put ark of the covenant on noah's ark"

Doug says (to Floyd), "put ark of the covenant on noah's ark"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUT ARK OF THE COVENANT ON NOAH'S ARK
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the plywood Ark of the Covenant)
Floyd |
Floyd | It's too awkward to pick up the plywood Ark of the Covenant while
Floyd | you're still holding the case labelled "HANDBELLS".
Floyd | You need to be holding the plywood Ark of the Covenant before you can
Floyd | put it on top of something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it
Floyd | safely from your current position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "wait, we weren't carrying them? weird"

Tigrita asks, "are we there yet?"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "get on amp"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > GET ON AMPFloyd |
Floyd | There's a case labelled "HANDBELLS" and an upside-down men's room
Floyd | garbage can on top of the amplifier; you'll have to clear it off
Floyd | before you climb up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON COVENANTFloyd |
Floyd | There's a plywood Noah's Ark on top of the plywood Ark of the
Floyd | Covenant; you'll have to clear it off before you climb up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > CLEAR ARK OF THE COVENANTFloyd |
Floyd | If you need to move the plywood Ark of the Covenant, you'd be better
Floyd | off picking it up and putting it where you want it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "oh, are we building steps?"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "get on amp"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > GET ON AMPFloyd |
Floyd | There's a case labelled "HANDBELLS" on top of the amplifier; you'll
Floyd | have to clear it off before you climb up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "You are making me feel slightly old. Please refrain from asking if there was once a Star Wars movie where people had swords made of light."

Floyd | You can't just drop the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the floor. What
Floyd | if someone steps on it or trips over it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "l"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | Storage EastFloyd | This place is a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to
Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. For some reason, there's nothing
Floyd | on the lowest shelf, even though there's stuff everywhere else. Near
Floyd | the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe three feet tall. In front of
Floyd | the cabinet and blocking the lower two-thirds of its door stands a
Floyd | huge amplifier. A plywood Ark of the Covenant is sitting on the floor
Floyd | by the cabinet, with a plywood Noah's Ark on top of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf,
Floyd | glistening strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on noah's ark"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S ARK
Floyd |
Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it
Floyd | safely from your current position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on other ark"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON OTHER ARKFloyd |
Floyd | (the plywood Noah's Ark)
Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it
Floyd | safely from your current position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "(That was a joke!)"

Jacqueline smiles at Draconis.

Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on ark of the covenant"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON ARK OF THE COVENANTFloyd |
Floyd | There's a plywood Noah's Ark on top of the plywood Ark of the
Floyd | Covenant; you'll have to clear it off before you climb up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > PUT HANDBELLS ON ARK OF THE COVENANTFloyd |
Floyd | There's no room for the case labelled "HANDBELLS" on the plywood Ark
Floyd | of the Covenant while the plywood Noah's Ark is on the plywood Ark of
Floyd | the Covenant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON ARK OF THE COVENANTFloyd |
Floyd | There's a plywood Noah's Ark on top of the plywood Ark of the
Floyd | Covenant; you'll have to clear it off before you climb up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on noah's"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STAND ON NOAH'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The plywood Noah's Ark is too tall for you to climb up on top of it
Floyd | safely, even though you're on the amplifier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "dangit."

Tigrita says (to floyd), "stand"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You clamber down again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage EastFloyd | This place is a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to
Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. On the lowest shelf is a case
Floyd | labelled "HANDBELLS". Near the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe
Floyd | three feet tall. In front of the cabinet and blocking the lower
Floyd | two-thirds of its door stands a huge amplifier. A plywood Ark of the
Floyd | Covenant is sitting on the floor by the cabinet, with a plywood Noah's
Floyd | Ark on top of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf,
Floyd | glistening strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CONTAINERFloyd |
Floyd | It looks a lot like a paint can, but trails of viscous grayish goop
Floyd | are running down the sides. What printing you can see on the label is
Floyd | in the "avoid contact with eyes, harmful if swallowed" vein.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Tigrita exclaims, "hey!"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "get container"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > GET CONTAINERFloyd |
Floyd | The can of goo is still far out of reach, but at least from here you
Floyd | can take a clear picture of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "photograph container"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH CONTAINERFloyd |
Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera)
Floyd | You snap a picture of the can of goo. The camera whirrs and vibrates
Floyd | and eventually spits out a print of the photo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "So the ectoplasm is fake."

Draconis says, "Now how to get down..."

Doug says (to Floyd), "reach container with crook"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > REACH CONTAINER WITH CROOKFloyd |
Floyd | You can reach the can with the crook, sure, but the most you could do
Floyd | is knock it off onto the floor and make a huge mess. Maybe you should
Floyd | just leave it where it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Darn it."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand"

Floyd ] Storage East
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You clamber down again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage EastFloyd | This place is a mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of rickety shelves mounted to the north wall have failed to
Floyd | put the room into any kind of order. On the lowest shelf is a case
Floyd | labelled "HANDBELLS". Near the shelves is a sturdy cabinet, maybe
Floyd | three feet tall. In front of the cabinet and blocking the lower
Floyd | two-thirds of its door stands a huge amplifier. A plywood Ark of the
Floyd | Covenant is sitting on the floor by the cabinet, with a plywood Noah's
Floyd | Ark on top of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just make out a container of some kind on the very top shelf,
Floyd | glistening strangely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an upside-down men's room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] End of Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | End of HallwayFloyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David
Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of
Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "u"

Floyd ] End of Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > UFloyd |
Floyd | From here, the only way out is south to more hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "The tuna's somewhere en route, I think."

Draconis asks, "Isn't there a connection here?"

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Tunnel
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | TunnelFloyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow
Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the
Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the
Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal
Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "up"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says, "tuna is at the south end of the hallway I think"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > CROOKFloyd |
Floyd | You catch the loop of cord with the end of the crook and pull. The
Floyd | trapdoor opens and a small ladder slides down, offering access to the
Floyd | steeple above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "Haha!"

Doug says, "yay"

DavidW says, "hurray"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > STANDFloyd |
Floyd | You get off the upside-down ladies' room garbage can.
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see
Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down
Floyd | to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see
Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down
Floyd | to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid
Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not
Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going."
Floyd |
Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly
Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a
Floyd | surprise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "We know exactly where the two of us are going. That's what it said."

DavidW says, "I'm not sure where we're going."

Doug says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony. An archway to the west leads back out into the
Floyd | sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a
Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the
Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Why?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "We haven't even found a single key yet."

djfletch says, "there's a chest we could put him in"

Draconis says, "Good idea."

Jacqueline asks, "Aiden?"

Doug asks, "maybe wake up Sharon?"

Jacqueline says, "Let's save first."

Doug says, "oh, we should photo the dress"

djfletch says, "I suppose taking him to Sharon makes sense"

Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure the goal is to be a snitch, but it's worth trying."

Floyd ] Steeple
Floyd | >Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO OF DRESSFloyd |
Floyd | (with the Polaroid camera)
Floyd | You snap a picture of the glowing dress. The camera whirrs and
Floyd | vibrates and eventually spits out a print of the photo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "l"

Floyd ] Steeple
Floyd | >Floyd | > L

Draconis says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd |
Floyd | SteepleFloyd | The inside of the church steeple is a cold concrete cube with
Floyd | cinderblock walls. There's one window, but it's been boarded up.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden looks you over.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ghost's glowing dress lies in a heap nearby. It doesn't look very
Floyd | ghostly now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see
Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down
Floyd | to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an upside-down ladies' room garbage can here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid
Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not
Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going."
Floyd |
Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly
Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a
Floyd | surprise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony. An archway to the west leads back out into the
Floyd | sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a
Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the
Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Why?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head west to the sanctuary and up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden follows you in.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Originally, she was just going to let me in the church during the
Floyd | sleepover, and we'd just spend the night taking a bunch of ghost
Floyd | pictures. However. Then we found out that you were going to be the
Floyd | other newspaper girl staying the night. And Orchid said you'd never go
Floyd | along with it. So we had to change the plan."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "x desk"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > X DESKFloyd |
Floyd | You saw one of these in a movie once. The top recedes into the back of
Floyd | the desk, and you can hide a convict inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP DESKFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The
Floyd | sound guy, whose name I don't remember, keeps all the controls for the
Floyd | sound and lights in that rolltop desk. He takes the key to the desk
Floyd | home with him, because the stuff inside is super expensive. I'm just
Floyd | fine with not breaking into it and messing around because I would
Floyd | probably break everything."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "So we can't hide his body here..."

Doug says, "so we have to break into the sound guy's home..."

Draconis says, "Maybe Casey knows where he lives."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "look up aiden"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP AIDENFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | guess you've probably seen Aiden in plays, but I've actually worked
Floyd | with him, so I know what I'm talking about. He is unbearable. You
Floyd | should be able to guess from the mustache.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aiden goes to parties, gets girls drunk, makes out with them, and
Floyd | then convinces them that his number is '123-4567'. And then he tells
Floyd | this story to everyone at rehearsal and expects us to laugh.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Speaking of which. This is the worst thing Aiden does: He laughs at
Floyd | every single one of his own jokes—sometimes just at sentences he says
Floyd | that can't even be considered jokes—and it's always the same
Floyd | single-syllable laugh, always the same pitch, pronounced exactly the
Floyd | same way. It's not really a laugh, it's more of a signal that you're
Floyd | supposed to think he's funny.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aiden doesn't even go to my church, but he's the worst, and I think
Floyd | you should know that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden follows you in.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the narthex, Orchid strolls in through the front door of
Floyd | the church. When she sees Aiden, her eyes go wide.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aiden! What are you doing here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey. Don't bother," Aiden snaps. "I've already told her everything.
Floyd | Or almost everything. Heh."
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid rushes up to Aiden with her fists clenched. "You're lying.
Floyd | There's no proof. All you can prove is that you broke into the church
Floyd | and tried to scare us."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, no," says Aiden. "I can prove some other things. I have the
Floyd | receipts. For the makeup and everything. Because you had to use a
Floyd | credit card, idiot."
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid goes quiet.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, we can talk about this in the morning," Aiden says, and he
Floyd | makes for the southern exit—but you grab his arm, and he cries out
Floyd | softly. "Yeah. Your way is probably better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden and Orchid come in after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now, where were we? Orchid didn't trust you to help her pull off this
Floyd | hoax. She said you're too much of a straight arrow. Those weren't her
Floyd | exact words. What were your exact words, Orchid?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid is looking down at her shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden shrugs. "She said something really nasty."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid and Aiden follow along.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But Orchid had this other great idea. She figured if we went a little
Floyd | further with the hoax, we could get you to believe the ghost was real.
Floyd | Heh."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wasn't trying to trick you!" Orchid pleads. "I just wanted it to be
Floyd | authentic. I wanted it to be a great story."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure, and then the great ghost story would be in the newspaper with
Floyd | the name of the most trustworthy reporter on staff on it, and Orchid's
Floyd | name too." Aiden chuckles. "But, looks like that didn't work out."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid and Aiden come down the stairs after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden looks past you, into the nursery, and you can see something
Floyd | click in his brain.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Although, you know, we could still do it. You guys can write the
Floyd | story, I won't say anything, Orchid won't say anything, everyone will
Floyd | love it, you'll probably be co-editors-in-chief next year. Let's go
Floyd | back upstairs, we'll get some better pictures of the ghost."
Floyd |
Floyd | "No thanks," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "and they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for us meddling kid!"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | "What did she say?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I won't repeat it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Casey slumps back in his chair. "You would make a great Christian," he
Floyd | mutters.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm sure I would." You try not to smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, how did Aiden fly around in the sanctuary?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm entertaining a hypothesis. I noticed components from an unusual
Floyd | mechanism lying around in the balcony."
Floyd |
Floyd | "The Engelgurt?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you like. I assume that, while I was chasing after Aiden, Orchid
Floyd | was up in the balcony disassembling the rig so it would look ever so
Floyd | slightly less suspicious."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey, did you hear what happened to Orchid?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I heard that she's suspended from the next two issues of the paper."
Floyd |
Floyd | Casey pouts. "I wanted to be the one to tell you."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sorry. Why don't you tell me what happened to Aiden?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'd love to! Except, I didn't know anything happened to Aiden. I
Floyd | didn't think they could do anything, since he's not on the newspaper?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Unfortunately for Aiden, in this case the left and right hands are in
Floyd | close communication. The drama department is putting him on probation
Floyd | for an as-yet undetermined period."
Floyd |
Floyd | Casey perks right back up. "Robin! That is the best thing I've ever
Floyd | heard! Although the thing about Orchid is pretty great too."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, Orchid is getting what she wanted anyway, I think. The
Floyd | Warbler is going to run a story that people will actually
Floyd | read, for once—except this one is true."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

Draconis asks, "How do you press a key?"

Doug pushes the green 'space' button.

Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | >Floyd |
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | >Floyd |
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP GWENFloyd |
Floyd | (Gwen)
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "I'll tell you about the big painting at the bottom of the stairs, but
Floyd | first I have to tell you about Homeschooled Gwen.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Homeschooled Gwen, so called because she was totally homeschooled,
Floyd | went to our high school. Yes! She was not in fact completelyFloyd | homeschooled, because her parents sent her to West for seventh-period
Floyd | geometry, because they did not remember the quadratic formula. It is:
Floyd | x equals negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus
Floyd | 4ac, over 2a.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But Gwen's parents couldn't remember that, even though I, Casey,
Floyd | memorized it so easily. So Gwen went to West High. And she was in my
Floyd | Geometry class."
Floyd |
Floyd | You pause before flipping the page. This story barely seems relevant
Floyd | to the church, much less your investigation. Are you sure you want to
Floyd | keep reading?
Floyd | >>

DavidW says, "No idea who Gwen is."

DavidW says, "Gwen was never mentioned until just now."

Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes"

Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YESFloyd |
Floyd | You turn the page:
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, due to being homeschooled, Gwen was not at all socialized for
Floyd | interacting with us teens of the modern era. What I am saying is that
Floyd | she was super weird. I was friends with her mostly out of morbid
Floyd | curiosity. Here are some of the weird stunts she pulled in Geometry:
Floyd | Told us all individually what breed of dog we would be if we were
Floyd | dogs. Read us stories, apparently like Wendy read to the Lost Boys.
Floyd | Gave us a survey about what we found attractive in girls.
Floyd |
Floyd | "When I say 'us' I mean just the boys in class. Gwen was super
Floyd | boy-crazy, because, due to being homeschooled all of her life, Gwen
Floyd | had never seen a boy before. Yes."
Floyd |
Floyd | This looks like it might be turning into an extended rant against the
Floyd | institution of homeschooling (Casey can be something of a jerk when it
Floyd | comes to things he knows nothing about). Do you want to continue?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes"

Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YESFloyd |
Floyd | Casey goes on:
Floyd |
Floyd | "I mean she had probably seen a male human before. She had a dad; we
Floyd | found that out eventually. But you know what I mean.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Anyway one day after school, after seventh-period geometry, I was
Floyd | hanging out in the mud room waiting for my ride home, and Gwen was
Floyd | there too, waiting for her own ride back to her own horrible
Floyd | school-home hybrid, and then Patrick the youth leader showed
Floyd | up, because he's still allowed on school grounds. And he asked me
Floyd | about the lock-in."
Floyd |
Floyd | It is increasingly clear to you that this story has no bearing on your
Floyd | investigation. Do you want to keep reading it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes"

Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YESFloyd |
Floyd | You turn another page.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Or he asked me about something. Probably the lock-in. But we
Floyd | were talking, and Gwen was there, and Patrick the youth leader WITHOUT
Floyd | CONSULTING ME BEFOREHAND looks over at Gwen and asks her if she wants
Floyd | to come to the lock-in. And of course Gwen says yes, because there
Floyd | will be boys there.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Gwen came to the lock-in, and after that she started coming to the
Floyd | high school group meetings. And an unfortunate percentage of people in
Floyd | the group did not seem to catch on right away that Gwen was a nutbar,
Floyd | so she felt very welcome and emotionally supported by us, and when
Floyd | Patrick the youth leader opened the floor for 'discussion' after his
Floyd | sermons we all got to listen to her insane opinions about
Floyd | Thanksgiving, and family togetherness, and sex, etc., etc."
Floyd |
Floyd | You look up from the notes. Maybe there's something else you should be
Floyd | doing. Do you want to continue reading?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

Doug asks, "the mud room?"

Draconis asks, "Wow. Is Gwen ever mentioned except in this?"

Doug says, "it looked like we could get here by looking up the large painting"

Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes"

Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YESFloyd |
Floyd | "Then, this was around the end of last semester, Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave all of us in the group one of his CHALLENGES. His
Floyd | CHALLENGE to us this particular week was for us to think about our
Floyd | relationship to the church. I mean, like, 'spend the next seven days
Floyd | thinking about this, and come back next week with something really
Floyd | profound.' A lot of Patrick the youth leader's CHALLENGES are
Floyd | basically attempts to get us to say something profound.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And of course we all forgot about this CHALLENGE immediately, because
Floyd | come on. He never follows up on any of them anyway. He just read in
Floyd | some youth leader magazine that you should give your youth group
Floyd | CHALLENGES.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And when we came back the next week, of course, Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader doesn't bother asking anyone what brilliant answers we came up
Floyd | with to his incredibly vague CHALLENGE. We had a sermon and then we
Floyd | played Sardines or whatever.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But before we could leave, Patrick the youth leader called us all
Floyd | together, because Gwen had something to share with us."
Floyd |
Floyd | Keep reading?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes"

Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YESFloyd |
Floyd | "Now that I think about it, she must have brought the painting in with
Floyd | her, left it behind a couch or something, and waited for three hours
Floyd | or however long for Patrick the youth leader to ask for people's
Floyd | answers to his CHALLENGE of the previous week. She was just too
Floyd | freaked out and embarrassed to bring it up herself, until the very
Floyd | last possible moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So yeah it was this painting. I'm not gonna bother describing this
Floyd | painting, because you can see it yourself. But if you think about it,
Floyd | all those tiny brushstrokes on a canvas that huge must have taken a
Floyd | zillion hours to do, and she supposedly only had a week to paint it. I
Floyd | guess that's what the church meant to Gwen."
Floyd |
Floyd | It goes on a little longer, but that feels like an end to the
Floyd | "substance" of the story, such as it is. Should you bother reading the
Floyd | rest?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

Draconis says (to Floyd), "yes"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > YESFloyd |
Floyd | "Well, sometime during the summer, Gwen quit coming to the youth
Floyd | group. It took me a while to figure out what happened but it turns out
Floyd | she got grounded from church because her parents
Floyd | found out she had a crush on a boy who went there.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, that is the story on Homeschooled Gwen. You will never meet her,
Floyd | because her parents will never let her out of the house again."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "Um..."

Jacqueline says, "I wonder if this is pulled from Ryan's past, or Emily's."

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > X ORCHIDFloyd |
Floyd | Orchid, like most girls your age, is taller than you. Her cheeks are
Floyd | covered in freckles that you had never seen before tonight; she must
Floyd | put makeup on over them for school. You have the uneasy feeling that
Floyd | there are more freckles on her left cheek than her right.
Floyd |
Floyd | She notices you examining her, and you look away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP JESUSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts
Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT
Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with
Floyd | JONAH."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "Especially in high school when hormones are going crazy."

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up manger"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP MANGERFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "So
Floyd | last year, Orchid said she wanted to run the Christmas play. And
Floyd | Marcie Kempulfers, who always runs the Christmas play every year,
Floyd | thought that was a great idea. She said it would be really cute to
Floyd | have a little girl be in charge of the play. This was last year, so
Floyd | Orchid was either fifteen or sixteen years old, I think.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The first thing Orchid suggested was that they use a real baby to
Floyd | play the baby Jesus. Some church person had a baby, and Orchid,
Floyd | because she's completely a girl, was totally nuts for this baby. But
Floyd | Marcie says oh no, we always use a doll for the baby Jesus, real
Floyd | babies cause so many headaches.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You can see where this is going. But I'll write more about it in some
Floyd | other entries. This is Entry One of Four."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP HANDBELLSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Here is the deal with the handbells. Marcie Kempulfers is in charge
Floyd | of the bell choir. She has a very strict handbell protocol. The
Floyd | handbells are church property, and she says so frequently as people
Floyd | try to goof off in bell choir practice.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But Patrick the youth leader is not so uptight, and for this youth
Floyd | service he thought we should do a bell choir number, without any
Floyd | oversight by or permission from Marcie Kempulfers. He decided we
Floyd | should play 'Seek Ye First', because he could only force an octave's
Floyd | worth of kids to volunteer, and he thought it was an easy song. And it
Floyd | is an easy song. But we were poorly motivated.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So the youth service rolls around, and the extremely unofficial youth
Floyd | bell choir has yet to master our song. But we're listed in the
Floyd | program. We have to go out and perform, and when we perform this song
Floyd | we are going to butcher it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then, right before the service starts, Marcie Kempulfers shows up to
Floyd | have words with Patrick the youth leader. The effects of these words
Floyd | were, first of all, we were definitely not going to be performing a
Floyd | non-Kempulfers-supervised handbell piece, ever, and secondly, now
Floyd | Marcie takes the handbells home with her whenever they aren't being
Floyd | used at church.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't know why she doesn't take the case too."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP CROOKFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Okay. Just as she's about to land, Orchid's robe gets caught on one
Floyd | of the shepherd's crooks, and the Engelgurt suffers a critical failure
Floyd | and Orchid falls to the floor and according to some witnesses almost
Floyd | dies. The whole service gets shut down so that Orchid can go to the
Floyd | emergency room, although I think all that happened was she sprained
Floyd | her ankle.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Of course, Orchid is in huge trouble with Marcie Kempulfers and with
Floyd | the church in general, but what does being in trouble with a church
Floyd | even mean? It's not like they can expel you. We're Methodists. They
Floyd | didn't even get rid of the Engelgurt; it's still in the storage room.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And anyway Orchid wasn't sorry at all. She kept saying, 'At least it
Floyd | was new!' 'At least it was exciting!' Because that's how she operates.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's it. This is Entry Four of Four."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP HEMPEN ROBESFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "So
Floyd | next Orchid says she wants the shepherds to sing a song. You have to
Floyd | understand that the shepherds are played by the littler kids, and the
Floyd | older kids play angels or Mary and Joseph or the wise men, and while
Floyd | every older kid ends up having to sing a song at some point, the
Floyd | shepherds do not. I think Orchid wanted them to sing 'Silent Night',
Floyd | which is a pretty good choice for little kids to sing. I will admit
Floyd | that Orchid made a good call here.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But Marcie did not agree. I'm pretty sure Marcie thinks that because
Floyd | it's impossible to get little kids to carry a tune or understand
Floyd | Italian music vocabulary, nobody wants to hear them sing in church,
Floyd | which is a critical misconception and I think indicates some sort of
Floyd | psychological defect in Marcie Kempulfers's brain. Anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Marcie made up this insane justification to have the bell choir play
Floyd | 'Silent Night' instead. She said the bell choir had already practiced
Floyd | it, which was technically true, although specifically they had
Floyd | practiced it during the previous calendar year. But Marcie got her
Floyd | way.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I hope you're not reading this as me defending Orchid, because I
Floyd | would never do that. Don't worry; we will get to the part where Orchid
Floyd | is horrible in the next entry. This is Entry Two of Four."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | > HOPEFloyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP ENGELGURTFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Well, Marcie shut down a couple more of Orchid's ideas, and Orchid
Floyd | eventually figured out her real problem, which was: she kept telling
Floyd | Marcie her ideas. If she was going to change anything about the
Floyd | Christmas program, she was going to have to do it behind Marcie's
Floyd | back.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So she got her dad to build this crazy device, the Engelgurt, which
Floyd | used a system of rods and pulleys and winches to make someone glide
Floyd | across a room, like an angel.
Floyd |
Floyd | "A couple nights before the Christmas program, Orchid and her dad came
Floyd | in and set up the Engelgurt while nobody else was around. I mean, I
Floyd | have to assume her dad was involved, although I don't remember him
Floyd | ever getting in trouble over it. Whatever.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The night of the program came around and for a while everything went
Floyd | exactly as Marcie planned. Jesus was a doll, and the bell choir played
Floyd | 'Silent Night', and so on. But in the middle of the angels singing
Floyd | 'Angels We Have Heard On High', Orchid appears up in the balcony, in
Floyd | her non-regulation homemade angel robe, and starts floating down to
Floyd | Earth, and oh no I've run out of space! Cliffhanger! This is Entry
Floyd | Three of Four!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Something about the description of the Engelgurt sounds vaguely
Floyd | familiar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "This kid with the notebook is quite cruel."

Jacqueline says, "But then, I guess this kid does sound like a lot of teens."

Jacqueline says, "I do not miss people like this."

Doug asks, "so is there a way to explore some more while in the endgame? or do we have to restore from earlier?"

DavidW says, "I guess there must be some way into the pastor's office, but we never found the key."

Doug asks, "what was the glowing tissue? is that what Aiden used on the dress?"

djfletch says, "I suppose so"

djfletch says, "There seem to be quite a lot of red herrings, unless there's some other solution we could have done"

Doug says, "we never did anything in the boiler room."

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up boiler room"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP BOILER ROOMFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "I've only been inside of the boiler room very briefly, but I have to
Floyd | assume it's a really cool place to hang out. Make sure you tell me all
Floyd | about it when you get the chance."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says, "the rolltop desk, the chest for hiding in, the plant that was a trip hazard"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP BLACK LIGHTFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Yes! This room! So, Patrick the youth leader got us together a few
Floyd | years ago and had us paint the walls of this room black, and then
Floyd | paint Bible verses on it, and then install black lights instead of
Floyd | normal lights, so it would look like a Christian rave or whatever. And
Floyd | I mean it looks fairly cool, I guess.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But when you have a dark room, with purple lights, and a bunch of
Floyd | couches, and then you invite teenagers into the room and leave them in
Floyd | that room unattended, what happens is, the teenagers will use that
Floyd | room for what Patrick the youth leader calls 'heavy petting'.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So that's why this room is called the Black Light Make-Out Room."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up back room"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP BACK ROOMFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The
Floyd | back room is kind of a secret, I guess, although we use it as the
Floyd | 'backstage' whenever we do plays and that kind of thing. Nobody ever
Floyd | uses it as a hiding place when we're playing games, though. I guess it
Floyd | might be too obvious? Or maybe it's just too boring.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You can get to the basement from the back room, too: there's a
Floyd | sliding panel in the back wall, but to get it open, you have to apply
Floyd | some upward pressure to get it out of its groove a little bit. That's
Floyd | the real secret, I guess."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up tunnel"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP TUNNELFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "You
Floyd | might want to know where the tunnel is, because that's where the fuse
Floyd | box is. If I remember to draw a map for you then I'll make sure to
Floyd | point out the tunnel and stick it in here."
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no map.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP TUNAFloyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the open can of tuna or the mass of tuna?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up mass of tuna"

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP MASS OF TUNAFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | On the subject of canned food Casey writes, "I'm pretty sure the
Floyd | people who are supposed to be in charge of donating stuff to the Food
Floyd | Bank are really disorganized, because you always see spare cans of
Floyd | stuff lying around. Or maybe some of the cans were rejected by the
Floyd | Food Bank. I don't know how it works."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP MODELFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The
Floyd | model church is a model of some other church. I think it used to be
Floyd | inside of that church, but it got torn down, or they went bankrupt,
Floyd | and the model ended up in our church. It's kind of a creepy object,
Floyd | though. The guy who made it was clearly way too obsessed with his
Floyd | church."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Draconis says, "I think we photographed it."

Doug says, "what was the deal with the fingerprints, I wonder."

Draconis says, "They just aliased to the model, so we couldn't even photo them."

DavidW says, "Just people touching the case it was in."

Doug asks, "buy why include that in the game?"

Draconis heads back home.

DavidW says, "That was my concern. Why is it there."

Doug says, "seems like a really uninteresting detail, without leading to a story"

DavidW says, "An interesting detail, you mean. If it was uninteresting, we'd treat it like the pews."

Doug says (to Floyd), "restore"

Floyd | >Floyd | > RESTOREFloyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

djfletch says, "maybe there are lots of red herrings just to make things more mysterious"

Doug says (to Floyd), "cf1"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat watches you for a moment, but runs off to the west before you
Floyd | can get near it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check
Floyd | whether you're following.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "and what's the deal with the cat"

DavidW asks, "We never found matches for the candles either, did we?"

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still on the other side of the room when the cat scampers off
Floyd | to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat bounds downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "down"

Floyd ] Tunnel
Floyd | >Floyd | > DOWNFloyd |
Floyd | Behind the sliding door you find a steep, narrow flight of stairs with
Floyd | no handrail. You walk down them slowly, not wanting to miss your
Floyd | footing in the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | TunnelFloyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow
Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the
Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the
Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal
Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying
Floyd | in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat sits down underneath the fuse box and starts licking its paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "hm, maybe it points out the sliding panel if we haven't opened it yet"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Altar
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch asks, "but why is the tuna openable?"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP PODIUMFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "You
Floyd | want to be careful if you're sneaking around the narthex in the dark,
Floyd | because there is a podium in there that is really, really easy to not
Floyd | notice, and the corners of that podium are right about at crotch
Floyd | level."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "The podium is in the Altar location."

djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up genesis in bible"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP GENESIS IN BIBLEFloyd |
Floyd | You can't seem to find exactly what you're looking for, but you do
Floyd | find this: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first
Floyd | heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > READ ABOUT JESUSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | volunteered to paint a mural in the basement, and Patrick the youth
Floyd | leader gave me permission, so I painted a mural of the Four Beasts
Floyd | (the man and the lion and the ox and the eagle) and it was a GREAT
Floyd | MURAL but once they saw it they went ahead and covered it up with
Floyd | JONAH."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > N. N. N.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > N. S. S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | TunnelFloyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow
Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the
Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the
Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal
Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying
Floyd | in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the heavy door)
Floyd | The heavy door slips out of your fingers and slams shut behind you,
Floyd | leaving you in darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | DarknessFloyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing except for the dim light
Floyd | trickling in from the south end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | It's almost completely dark. At least you can still see the light at
Floyd | the south end of the hallway. The rectangles to the east and west must
Floyd | be doorways to somewhere, but they're barely distinguishable from the
Floyd | walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "a GO TO command would've been nice, yeah."

Doug says (to Floyd), "s. s. e"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > S. S. E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | Thanks to the light filtering in from the south end of the hall, you
Floyd | can make out some kind of mural painted on the wall, but you can't
Floyd | tell what it's supposed to represent in the gloom.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north into darkness. It's hard to tell how long it
Floyd | might be from here, though the Sunday School room to the east provides
Floyd | some light at this end. The plywood lighthouse, on the other hand,
Floyd | peacefully fails to provide any light. Behind the lighthouse and
Floyd | partially obscured by it is a mural of Jesus blessing the little
Floyd | children.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n. n"

Floyd ] Boiler Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > N. N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Boiler RoomFloyd | This must be a fairly large room, but most of the space is given over
Floyd | to snaking pipes, anonymous machinery, and the church's giant boiler.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x pipes"

Floyd ] Boiler Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PIPESFloyd |
Floyd | Many of the pipes run all the way down to the floor from their tangled
Floyd | maze in the ceiling, making some corners of the room impossible to
Floyd | reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug asks, "oh yeah, weren't there footsteps down here too? was that Aiden, or Orchid?"

DavidW says, "Aiden, I think."

DavidW says, "When we emerged from Tunnel to End of Hallway, we startled someone. It could've been either of them."

Doug says, "he seemed to be locked up in the steeple, but maybe not"

Doug asks, "how about the pastor office?"

DavidW says, "We shoulda did AIDEN, FREEZE"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Basement StairwayFloyd | This room is apparently just for show; there are no tables or chairs.
Floyd | A wide staircase runs up to the main floor of the church, and doorways
Floyd | lead east to the nursery, south to the Sunday School room and north to
Floyd | the boiler room. Mounted on the wall is a gigantic abstract painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting"

Floyd ] Basement Stairway
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Doug), "I don't know how to get in there."

Floyd | > X PAINTINGFloyd |
Floyd | The piece is very pleasant, if not particularly interesting: the
Floyd | inoffensive greens and pinks could suggest river waters, or branches
Floyd | waving in the wind. Its size is probably its most impressive quality.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "up"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | This room forms a sort of nook off the fellowship hall to the south. A
Floyd | wide flight of stairs leads down to the basement. There are doors to
Floyd | the north, northeast and southeast; according to the plaques on them,
Floyd | they open onto the pastor's office, the men's restroom and the ladies'
Floyd | restroom respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vast framed poster is hanging on the wall in between the restroom
Floyd | doors, and in the middle of the room, directly facing the poster, is a
Floyd | wooden bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > X PASTORFloyd |
Floyd | The door to the north is no more impressive than any other you've
Floyd | seen, but the plaque on it reads, "Pastor Ivan Shearer."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | happens....and then the alarm starts screaming at you.Minutes later,
Floyd | flashing lights and sirens herald the arrival of the police.

DavidW says, "uhoh"

Doug says (to Floyd), "push space"

Floyd | flashing lights and sirens herald the arrival of the police.You are
Floyd | taken away in handcuffs.

Doug says (to Floyd), "push space"

Floyd | taken away in handcuffs.After Sharon's report to the principal, the
Floyd | school suspends you. The West High Warbler stands you down
Floyd | from its staff.

Doug says (to Floyd), "push space"

Floyd | from its staff.No college will accept a delinquent like you. You end
Floyd | up finding work as janitor at West High. The teachers tell new
Floyd | students your story as a warning.

Doug says (to Floyd), "push space"

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | students your story as a warning....and then you are back in the
Floyd | present. You let go of the door handle and back away hastily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "haha"

djfletch says, "nice"

Doug says, "C O P S"

Jacqueline says, "hahaha"

Jacqueline says, "Okay, that was great."

Doug asks, "was that AMUSING enough for you?"

DavidW says, "um. Check the tags in Narthex, see if Ivan's tag is there."

Doug says (to Floyd), "s. w"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > S. W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "I think that daydream sequence was the thing being clued in AMUSING."

DavidW says, "I think I'm done."

djfletch says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | The cat bounds into the fellowship hall ahead of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat wanders off to the north, glancing back at you as if to check
Floyd | whether you're following.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Well, sure, but we've done time now, so we're down with crimes."

Doug says, "yeah, I'm done. though there's probably more tidbits to find in the notes."

DavidW says, "oh, probably"

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up ladies'"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP LADIES'
Floyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Well, Robin. I actually explored the ladies' restroom briefly, during
Floyd | a game of Sardines. But then, because of events that transpired, the
Floyd | ladies' restroom was declared to be off-limits. And shortly after
Floyd | that, because of fairness, the men's restroom was declared to be
Floyd | off-limits as well. For Sardines purposes at least."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up men's"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP MEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "If
Floyd | you have time, you should go ahead and take a look in the men's room,
Floyd | since who knows how many opportunities like this you'll have in the
Floyd | future. I won't spoil anything by describing it here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up urinals"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP URINALSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "The
Floyd | thing about the urinals in the men's room is, there are no divider
Floyd | walls in between them. I don't like it, Robin. I don't like it at
Floyd | all."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up potted meat food product"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP POTTED MEAT FOOD PRODUCTFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | On the subject of canned food Casey writes, "I'm pretty sure the
Floyd | people who are supposed to be in charge of donating stuff to the Food
Floyd | Bank are really disorganized, because you always see spare cans of
Floyd | stuff lying around. Or maybe some of the cans were rejected by the
Floyd | Food Bank. I don't know how it works."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP ROBINFloyd |
Floyd | (the name tag)
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "When the new pastor came, he insisted that everybody wear name tags
Floyd | all the time, but that didn't last long. Name tags are a pain."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

djfletch says (to Floyd), "e"

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up camera"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | KitchenFloyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any
Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards
Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to
Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the
Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP CAMERAFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I'm
Floyd | really glad you're using a Polaroid to get proof of the ghost, because
Floyd | that's what Winona Ryder used in Beetlejuice to get proof of
Floyd | Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now that I think of it, in the movie, the ghosts didn't actually show
Floyd | up on the Polaroids. But that's probably not how it works in real
Floyd | life."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "For what it's worth, food banks will reject some foods, like half-eaten jars of peanut butter or pasta bags that are ripped open."

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up cross"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP CROSSFloyd |
Floyd | (the small white cross)
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Man, when I was a little kid in Sunday School, and we had those
Floyd | little kid Bible lessons, I always used to stare at that little white
Floyd | cross, to pass the time or something. I'm pretty sure I was too smart
Floyd | for Sunday School. Sunday School is a weird thing to be too smart for,
Floyd | I guess.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Although I guess when the high schoolers broke off to be their own
Floyd | mature group, that was basically the same thing. Kind of. In that
Floyd | situation it was because we were too cool for the junior high kids.
Floyd | But that's still really weird.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What I mean is, it's really weird for people who identify as
Floyd | Christians to also identify as being too cool for something."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP LARGE CROSSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "A
Floyd | cross is not technically a crucifix unless there's a Jesus on it. We
Floyd | are not Catholics, so we have a plain old cross, and it suits us just
Floyd | fine."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

zzo38 arrives, ready to play with the toys.

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up notes"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP NOTESFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | know there's a lot of the church you haven't seen or that you don't
Floyd | remember, so I'm writing down everything I can think of. I feel like
Floyd | these notes will be an invaluable resource when I get older and feel
Floyd | the need to revisit the carefree days of my youth, so make sure you
Floyd | give them back to me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

olethros disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.

zzo38 suddenly evaporates.

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up candles"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP CANDLESFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Churches are all about candles. I bet 30% of any given church's
Floyd | budget is probably spent on candles and candle paraphernalia. But can
Floyd | you imagine a church without candles? No, you can't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP LIGHTFloyd |
Floyd | (the light switch)
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "I
Floyd | don't have much to say about the lights. Sometimes there's a problem
Floyd | and you have to go mess with the fuse box. But in your case it doesn't
Floyd | matter, because you should be leaving the lights off anyway! You're
Floyd | hunting a ghost!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sharon"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP SHARONFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting: "Why
Floyd | do people like Sharon want to become teachers? (By 'people like
Floyd | Sharon' I mean 'people who obviously hate everything about teaching,
Floyd | even and especially students'.) If you're already completely jaded and
Floyd | cynical after your first semester of student teaching, isn't that a
Floyd | sign that you should give up on K-12 education and possibly on life in
Floyd | general?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "I wonder if there are other non-winning endings"

Doug says, "finding more evidence but not finding Aiden"

DavidW says, "oh, probably"

Doug asks, "or finding Aiden but not the ectoplasm paint?"

DavidW says, "Also, we had the option of joining the conspiracy."

Doug says, "it's also not entirely clear what all we needed to photograph to win"

Doug asks, "wait, we did?"

Doug says, "Aiden asked but we said no. I don't think we had a player choice there"

DavidW says, "at the very end. There was a yes/no."

DavidW says, "And whoever was driving drove right through by pushing space, I think."

Doug | Floyd | "No thanks," you say.

DavidW says, "After that."

Doug says, "Jacq posited a yes/no prompt, but that was just her"

DavidW says, "I thought the game made the prompt."

Doug | Jacqueline | WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A FRAUD? (Y/N)

DavidW says, "oh, I thought the game did that."

DavidW says, "It went by too fast."

Doug says, "we did have to go into the nursery and WAKE SHARON. not sure what would happen if we tried other things."

Doug says (to Floyd), "l"

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LFloyd |
Floyd | KitchenFloyd | The church kitchen contains much the same kind of thing as any
Floyd | kitchen, only more so. Long countertops line the walls, with cupboards
Floyd | and drawers underneath them. A break in the counters allows you to
Floyd | leave the kitchen via the door to the west, and on the far side of the
Floyd | room a sink is set into the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Kitchen
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP JAMFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You can't find a note for any specific jar, but Casey did write down
Floyd | something related.
Floyd |
Floyd | "In like, I think freshman year, Patrick the youth leader had this
Floyd | great idea to try canning preserves, to raise money for some kind of
Floyd | thing. And he gave each of us a job: you get jars, you get
Floyd | strawberries, you get peaches, we'll all come together and can stuff.
Floyd |
Floyd | "And, because we were freshmen and not yet completely jaded by the
Floyd | high school experience, we all brought the stuff we were supposed to.
Floyd | But on the day of the big event it turned out, in a revelation that
Floyd | completely shocked the socks off of Patrick the youth leader, that
Floyd | canning preserves is a pretty complicated process with steps beyond
Floyd | just mashing up fruit and putting it into jars. And if you mess it up
Floyd | then your jam will give people salmonella and they'll die.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So we just sat around and ate fruit, and now there are a bunch of
Floyd | glass jars hanging around the church for no good reason."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "heh"

Doug says, "I'm going to try to get the crook and open the trapdoor"

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Fellowship Hall
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | This room is a bit crowded for your tastes: between the many round
Floyd | tables, each surrounded by a complement of folding chairs, there isn't
Floyd | much space to get from one end of the room to the other. The main
Floyd | stairway is north, the kitchen is east, and the narthex is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n. n. n"

Floyd ] Back Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > N. N. N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Tunnel
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | TunnelFloyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow
Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the
Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the
Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal
Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying
Floyd | in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] End of Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd | (first opening the heavy door)
Floyd |
Floyd | End of HallwayFloyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David
Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of
Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Echoing footsteps draw your attention to a figure walking down the
Floyd | south end of the hallway, but whoever it is goes into the Sunday
Floyd | School room before you can see their face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says, "oh, there is it again!"

Doug says (to Floyd), "s. s. s"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > S. S. S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | A huge rainbow arches across the wall in this part of the hallway.
Floyd | Underneath it, a door leads west, with an identical door opposite on
Floyd | the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway continues to run north and south. The wall here is taken
Floyd | up by a mural of a beached whale and a man lying on the sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north, past the plywood lighthouse, all the way up to
Floyd | the door to the tunnel. A doorway to the east leads into the Sunday
Floyd | School room, and on the wall opposite it is the mural of Jesus
Floyd | blessing the little children.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Sunday School Room
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday School RoomFloyd | This is a room designed for small people. Low benches are arranged
Floyd | like pews in two rows, facing toward a small table that serves as an
Floyd | altar. A poster explaining the Ten Commandments hangs on one wall, and
Floyd | doors lead north to the basement stairway, east to the youth room and
Floyd | west to the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV trolley is standing in the middle of the room, looking lonely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway runs north, past the plywood lighthouse, all the way up to
Floyd | the door to the tunnel. A doorway to the east leads into the Sunday
Floyd | School room, and on the wall opposite it is the mural of Jesus
Floyd | blessing the little children.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "yeah, I think the fleeing figure is just a message without any actual object to catch."

Doug says (to Floyd), "n"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > NFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | HallwayFloyd | The hallway continues to run north and south. The wall here is taken
Floyd | up by a mural of a beached whale and a man lying on the sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "x whale"

Floyd ] Hallway
Floyd | >Floyd | > X WHALEFloyd |
Floyd | The plump blue whale is flicking its tail in the air in a cheerful
Floyd | sort of fashion. It doesn't seem at all bothered by having beached
Floyd | itself and vomited up a human.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > X CRAYONSFloyd |
Floyd | Some of the crayons are half-used. Some of them are more like
Floyd | three-quarters used, or even four-fifths used. The rest are broken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "look up crayons"

Floyd ] Storage West
Floyd | >Floyd | > LOOK UP CRAYONSFloyd |
Floyd | (in Casey's notes)
Floyd | You flick through the notes and read Casey's scrawly handwriting:
Floyd | "Before a certain unnamed individual left the church, we used to have
Floyd | art activities in Sunday School all the time. It was awesome. But
Floyd | things change, and people change, and on and on. I think there are
Floyd | some crayons left in the storage room."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Tunnel
Floyd | >Floyd | > N. N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | End of HallwayFloyd | The hall ends here at a heavy door to the north. A huge mural of David
Floyd | fighting Goliath adorns the west wall, but it's marred by a streak of
Floyd | gray gunk clinging to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | TunnelFloyd | You could hardly call this a room. It's just a long, musty, narrow
Floyd | space behind a wall. At one end, a flight of stairs runs up to the
Floyd | room behind the altar; at the other end a heavy door leads out to the
Floyd | south. In between them, a fuse box is mounted on the wall, its metal
Floyd | door hanging open to reveal a row of switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cheap-looking mirror, a black sphere and some black cloth are lying
Floyd | in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "up. s. s"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > UP. S. S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Back RoomFloyd | This is a far cry from the grandeur of the sanctuary. The walls are
Floyd | covered in some kind of dark wood panels, but they're shabby and
Floyd | windowless, and the floor is bare concrete. A huge wooden chest and a
Floyd | closet full of robes take up one wall. You can head back out to the
Floyd | altar to the south, or try the sliding door to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stack of hymnals is crammed into one corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some more ectoplasm is smeared on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | AltarFloyd | A few steps up from the pews to the south are the preacher's pulpit,
Floyd | the altar, and the American and Christian flags. Behind them, to the
Floyd | north, is a tiny doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the altar are two candles.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cross hangs high on the wall above the altar.
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "up"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > UPFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. On the ceiling behind the
Floyd | pews, you can see the square outline of what must be a trapdoor of
Floyd | some kind, and a narrow staircase leads back down to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > X RAILINGFloyd |
Floyd | A low wall runs along the edge of the balcony, with a thick wooden
Floyd | railing set on top of it. It's hard to tell if the railing is just
Floyd | meant to be decorative, or if it was added as an afterthought to make
Floyd | the wall a bit higher.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat bounds downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > DOWNFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see
Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down
Floyd | to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid
Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not
Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going."
Floyd |
Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly
Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a
Floyd | surprise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head up to the steeple and down to the the
Floyd | balcony stairwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a
Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the
Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Why?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "e"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > EFloyd |
Floyd | From here, you could head west to the sanctuary and up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden follows you in.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Originally, she was just going to let me in the church during the
Floyd | sleepover, and we'd just spend the night taking a bunch of ghost
Floyd | pictures. However. Then we found out that you were going to be the
Floyd | other newspaper girl staying the night. And Orchid said you'd never go
Floyd | along with it. So we had to change the plan."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys.

Jacqueline wonders, after the second crash, whether or not the completists will still endeavor to complete.

djfletch says, "I think Doug was trying the ending again but I'm not sure exactly what he was going to do."

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*** MUD CRASH ***

Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys.

DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys.

inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.

DavidW says, "Are we stable again? I was chatting to Doug via the google drawing."

Jacqueline says, "Hard to say. But I am logging."

inky arrives, full of fun and funk.

inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.

Doug arrives, full of neither funk nor fun.

Doug says (to Floyd), "l"

Floyd says (to Doug), "Floyd doesn't know that trick."

DavidW says, "Floyd isn't running the game."

Doug asks (of Jacqueline), "so the reboots didn't interrupt PerrySimm? or do you not need him for ClubFloyd transcripts?"

DavidW says, "I think Jacq merely restarted and resummoned Perry."

Jacqueline says, "It did affect him, but I brought him back up as soon as I got back in in case you guys wanted to continue."

Doug says (to Floyd), " load sleepmask robinandorchid"

Doug says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask robinandorchid"

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Casey glances around the newspaper office. "Orchid is gone, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, she left. Why do you ask?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wanted to give you this while she wasn't around." He hands you a
Floyd | thick, well-leafed notebook. "It's just kind of a guide kind of thing,
Floyd | with some general information and directions, just to help you get
Floyd | around. Don't let Orchid see it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Are you sure I'll require so much background material? And why
Floyd | shouldn't Orchid see it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, Robin," Casey says, and he spins around a chair to sit on it
Floyd | backwards in what he surely thinks is a very casual and friendly pose,
Floyd | "Orchid is a church member, and you're not, and you missed the
Floyd | lock-in, so you don't have a lot of the context that Orchid has. I
Floyd | just wanted to put you on an even footing. And for your second
Floyd | question, I might have written some things in there that I wouldn't
Floyd | have said to Orchid's face."
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, and slip the notebook into your backpack. "I'm sure you've
Floyd | adequately prepared me for my mission."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, I have. You're welcome. No, wait, I've got one more thing to
Floyd | say. Make sure you take lots of pictures, obviously. It's your job.
Floyd | That's one." He starts counting on his fingers. "Um, it's more fun if
Floyd | you run off by yourself, so make sure you get Sharon off your back.
Floyd | That's two. And keep an open mind. I mean, just because you don't
Floyd | believe in ghosts doesn't mean you're not gonna see one.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things."

Doug pushes the green 'space' button.

Floyd ] Nursery
Floyd | "So, yeah. That's three things."
Floyd | Robin & OrchidFloyd | An exercise in photojournalism by Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 131027 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | NurseryFloyd | Sharon, in her wisdom, decided that everybody should sleep in this
Floyd | cramped corner of the church basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | Battered toys spill out of the toybox and across the floor, piling up
Floyd | in a corner of the room. Cupboards are mounted high on the walls, out
Floyd | of reach of tiny fingers, and an enormous blue recliner sits
Floyd | underneath them. It's already dark outside, and the doors west to the
Floyd | basement stairway and south are dark as well.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your sleeping bag is lying on a tidy patch of floor, ready for when
Floyd | you finish your investigation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid is lounging around, lecturing you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'd better hold onto this," she says, handing you the camera,
Floyd | "you're the official photographer. Just don't forget, if you see
Floyd | something that might be evidence of a ghost, make sure you take a
Floyd | photo of it."
Floyd |
Floyd | You slip the camera strap around your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Balcony
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | BalconyFloyd | Standing here, you have a good view of the altar and most of the
Floyd | sanctuary. A low wall with a railing along the top prevents accidents,
Floyd | though it probably also obscures the view for anyone sitting on the
Floyd | balcony pews. A projector is mounted at one end of the pews, pointing
Floyd | down towards the front of the sanctuary. Behind the pews you can see
Floyd | the ladder up to the steeple, and a narrow staircase leads back down
Floyd | to the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | The orange box is sitting upside down on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tangled heap of bars and cables is lying near the edge of the
Floyd | balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look back to make sure Aiden has followed you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes. Now I'll tell you the answer to your question. Of course Orchid
Floyd | knows. This was all Orchid's idea. She was very naughty. And I'm not
Floyd | even supposed to be here, so I should probably get going."
Floyd |
Floyd | He tries to slip past you, but you grab his arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden yelps like a dog. "What's your problem?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're not going anywhere. I've got a few more questions."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then can you get your hands off me first? You're gonna break my arm."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure." You let go of his arm. "Let's get going." You know exactly
Floyd | where the two of you are going, but you should probably keep that a
Floyd | surprise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "d"

Floyd ] Balcony Stairs
Floyd | >Floyd | > DFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Balcony StairsFloyd | There isn't really any room in here for anything except the stairs up
Floyd | to the balcony, but that hasn't stopped someone from putting a potted
Floyd | plant in the corner. If you can avoid tripping over the plant, an
Floyd | archway to the west leads back out into the sanctuary.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden mopes along after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, Orchid brought the idea to me. She said if she could write a
Floyd | story about a real ghost, then maybe people would actually read the
Floyd | newspaper. Heh. But I told her I'd help her."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Why?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "For the heck of it, primarily."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "w"

Floyd ] Sanctuary
Floyd | >Floyd | > WFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | SanctuaryFloyd | This room can't be as large as it seems. It certainly didn't look so
Floyd | huge from outside. It must be some kind of optical illusion, created
Floyd | by the angles of the vaulted ceiling or the long rows of pews.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the southern exit is a rolltop desk. Up at the north end of the
Floyd | room is the altar, and the east stairway must lead up to the balcony.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dark outside, and the stained glass windows are dull and
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden follows you in.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Originally, she was just going to let me in the church during the
Floyd | sleepover, and we'd just spend the night taking a bunch of ghost
Floyd | pictures. However. Then we found out that you were going to be the
Floyd | other newspaper girl staying the night. And Orchid said you'd never go
Floyd | along with it. So we had to change the plan."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Doug says (to Floyd), "s"

Floyd ] Narthex
Floyd | >Floyd | > SFloyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NarthexFloyd | The main entryway to the church, this room has been set up to be as
Floyd | welcoming as possible. A rack of pamphlets sits in the center of a
Floyd | large table, flanked by pots of fake flowers. Lying open on a podium
Floyd | is a huge Bible. Pinned up on one wall is a board full of name tags.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the fellowship hall, and the large passage to the north
Floyd | obviously leads to the main sanctuary. The way out of the church is
Floyd | south of here, but that's none of your concern currently.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden follows you in.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the narthex, Orchid strolls in through the front door of
Floyd | the church. When she sees Aiden, her eyes go wide.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aiden! What are you doing here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey. Don't bother," Aiden snaps. "I've already told her everything.
Floyd | Or almost everything. Heh."
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid rushes up to Aiden with her fists clenched. "You're lying.
Floyd | There's no proof. All you can prove is that you broke into the church
Floyd | and tried to scare us."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, no," says Aiden. "I can prove some other things. I have the
Floyd | receipts. For the makeup and everything. Because you had to use a
Floyd | credit card, idiot."
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid goes quiet.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, we can talk about this in the morning," Aiden says, and he
Floyd | makes for the southern exit—but you grab his arm, and he cries out
Floyd | softly. "Yeah. Your way is probably better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd ] Main Floor Stairway
Floyd | >Floyd | > E. E. N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Fellowship HallFloyd | One corner is given over to a glass case containing a model church.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden and Orchid come in after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now, where were we? Orchid didn't trust you to help her pull off this
Floyd | hoax. She said you're too much of a straight arrow. Those weren't her
Floyd | exact words. What were your exact words, Orchid?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Orchid is looking down at her shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aiden shrugs. "She said something really nasty."
Floyd |
Floyd | No time to explore now. Sharon needs to know what's been going on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Floor StairwayFloyd | Orchid and Aiden follow along.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But Orchid had this other great idea. She figured if we went a little
Floyd | further with the hoax, we could get you to believe the ghost was real.
Floyd | Heh."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wasn't trying to trick you!" Orchid pleads. "I just wanted it to be
Floyd | authentic. I wanted it to be a great story."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure, and then the great ghost story would be in the newspaper with
Floyd | the name of the most trustworthy reporter on staff on it, and Orchid's
Floyd | name too." Aiden chuckles. "But, looks like that didn't work out."
Floyd |
Floyd | >